I am 100% serious with the title, despite the appearance of click-bait. Mastodon has a serious structural rot that is only worsening as time gets on. I think this is for a few reasons which I will outline below. Ironically,… Continue reading →
oh y’all are discussing here? here is my comment from the technology sublemmy:
I read this article months ago and I remember that it was a mixed bag, some parts I could understand but others are really weak arguments.
Looking at the headlines I agree with some now, but all of them are totally blown out of proportion. If mastodon stopped existing and a new but worse open source decentralized alternative came along, many people would go there. And that’s good. I don’t understand saying that mastodon is dead just because it has problems. It always had those problems. It will get worse if many people join as well.
Going back to social media where you pay with your data is not really a good idea imo, although I could totally understand if you were harassed on mastodon or sth like that.
oh y’all are discussing here? here is my comment from the technology sublemmy:
I read this article months ago and I remember that it was a mixed bag, some parts I could understand but others are really weak arguments.
Looking at the headlines I agree with some now, but all of them are totally blown out of proportion. If mastodon stopped existing and a new but worse open source decentralized alternative came along, many people would go there. And that’s good. I don’t understand saying that mastodon is dead just because it has problems. It always had those problems. It will get worse if many people join as well.
Going back to social media where you pay with your data is not really a good idea imo, although I could totally understand if you were harassed on mastodon or sth like that.