Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
www.cjr.org

Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]

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    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      I think what’s surprising the journalists is that there is even such a thing as decentralized internet spaces.

      Mastodon is just Reddit subs with a Twitter front end. I don't think the mechanics are surprising, just the politics. And, again, if Mastodon fills up with corporate brands and their media flacks, it'll hardly matter. Planet Money will Confederate with Pepsi Co and the FBI and nobody will care that some small fries aren't along for the ride.

      Mastodon will be as suseptible to the networking effect as everything else.