Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
www.theverge.com
It’s Elon’s show now

I think they twitter will become a lot more lax on bans, potentially more strict on banning people who make fun of elon. I think trump will return to twitter. Overall, seems like a ginormous win for the libertarians/ancaps.

I think we should capitalize on this moment and bring way more people to the fediverse.

  • Bilb!
    1·
    3 years ago

    One major reason for centralization was discoverability. It was more convenient to go to a single social media site where all the content was than to hunt for small blogs around the internet. Federation solves this problem by allowing sites to connect with one another and share content. This provides a user experience that’s comparable to centralized platforms without the need for everyone to use a single site.

    I think this is way overly optimistic. Discovery is terrible on mastodon/pleroma compared to Twitter and it very likely always will be, especially if you’re not using a huge instance. You can share content, but good luck finding it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      11·
      3 years ago

      Sure, it’s always going to be easier to do on a centralized platform. However, discoverability just needs to be good enough so that people are willing to use the platform. I also expect that it will keep getting better over time as devs learn how to address existing issues.

      Personally, I think that the fediverse is in a very good place already. There are millions of users, and tons of content being generated, and lots of developers working on the platforms. I’d argue it’s in a place where it can sustain itself indefinitely already.