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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] breakingcups 28 points 2 weeks ago (24 children)

I do wonder what prevents BlueSky from going the way Twitter did, though.

[–] Vincente 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

It's open-source and has a public protocol.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

You still have to go through the central hub. You can't spin up your own, wholly independent Bluesky. You can only make your own node.

[–] Vincente 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yes, it’s not a full web3 app, but I like that these apps are heading in the right direction.

However it's better than Twitter/Instagram. I can control my feed!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Twitter also looked great until it didn't, it even comes from the same guy.

While at this moment BlueSky looks good, we will end up the same way sooner or later. Muskov et. al. figured out how to monetize social media. Now Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and others are tools to manufacture opinion. And certain opinions are worth a lot to certain people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit was open source at some point too.

[–] reka 1 points 2 weeks ago

it even comes from the same guy

The seed money came from Twitter, allocated by Jack Dorsey and he had a position on the board that he didn't really make use of. He literally left because he is against centralised moderation and didn't have enough influence to prevent bsky implementing it.

[–] dukethorion 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Until they build "The Algorithm" to "help you" find what ~~you~~ they want you to see or not.

[–] reka 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Feeds offer algorithm transparency and you can use alternative frontends. ATProto can't suddenly be turned to private and disable third party access, it is intrinsically public.

[–] dukethorion 1 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't have to be app-based, simply account based. Then the third party app doesn't mean anything.

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