Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era.

The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll get it. If you don’t like Gmail, you can switch to something else, but you don’t have to quit email entirely as a concept.

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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that a very big risk of… Centralization ? (Maybe he talks about it in the interview - weirdly, I can’t access it)

    Edit : sorry, just read the article, Lemmy app was fucking up the link for me. Well, I can understand the argument of people starting on default server and then moving on, but I’m afraid it mostly applies now and would probably reduce with broader adoption.