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(DIR) Post #AU4IoNDoMwXC5q7pQ0 by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T08:15:18Z
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It's funny that some people still say "Mastodon is the new Google+" and predict that this "too" will die eventually. They are just forgetting that Google+ was hosted by Google and killed by Google. Mastodon is hosted by no one in particular so it really can't be killed unless all the thousands of servers are killed.No one is saying that "Internet will die eventually". The same pricinples apply for Mastodon, because to permantently be wiped out would mean an extinction level event. Ironically enough, mammoths died of extinction but Mastodon will prosper. #Mastodon #SocialMedia
(DIR) Post #AU4KYJ0OTg4SI7JbaS by GrahamDowns@c.im
2023-03-28T08:34:46Z
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@rolle Yeah. mastodon.social might die or be shut down. And joinmastodon.org might die or be shut down.But Mastodon is a federation of independent servers, built on a protocol. And the software that runs it is open-source, so even if the "official" development team stops working on that code, someone else will take it over, perhaps rename/rebrand it, and it will live on.Mastodon has evolved far beyond the control of the person who originally envisioned it. But that's one of the things about open-source that most corporately- and capitalist-minded people can't wrap their heads around. :)
(DIR) Post #AU4VHUWxTNnebojRWy by santiago@masto.lema.org
2023-03-28T10:34:59Z
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@rolle others already compared it to IRC which makes more sense. It may fall out of fashion and become a wasteland like IRC but it will never actually die outright.This being said I am pretty sure we’re still in the growth phase. Once you’ve tested no ads & no suggested posts (also ads) it feels crazy to come back to commercial social networks even if that’s still normal life for a vast majority.
(DIR) Post #AU4cWFnzCeMOxhgPNA by ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2023-03-28T11:56:09Z
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@rolle Also it's a compliment, Google+ was great in my opinion 😀
(DIR) Post #AU4caCAQffIEpy3mEK by euklidiadas@red.niboe.info
2023-03-28T11:56:51Z
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@rolle I say "Internet will die eventually". xDAll human made things will do.
(DIR) Post #AU4cxPiCTiKrVPvZ9U by mori@mastodon.au
2023-03-28T12:01:00Z
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@rolle Mastodon will outlast all current social media, precisely because of its technical structure. The slow and steady growth will help as well.
(DIR) Post #AU4d43CCahXjhU7pTc by swagpussc@mastodon.social
2023-03-28T12:02:14Z
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@rolleWhether mastodon dies or not, I will stay on it (and fedilabs) until the funeral. I've never been more satisfied with a social media experience since Bebo xD@atomicpoet
(DIR) Post #AU4eAt3wlQuWFp5V9k by SuneAuken@mastodon.world
2023-03-28T12:14:40Z
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@rolle Mammoths, quoth Wikipedia, "lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,000 years ago". It will take quite an effort for any social media to match that lifespan.
(DIR) Post #AU4hLm6VHD8pihAPOi by otso@pleroma.karjalazet.se
2023-03-28T12:50:21.581310Z
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@rolle >No one is saying that "Internet will die eventually". The same pricinples apply for MastodonMastodon is different from Internet I can’t take down users and posts on Internet however much I may disagree with them, I can only ignore them and move on.Mastodon has built defederating and banning into the system.Large instance admins can decide for tens of thousands of people what they can do on Internet and with whom they are allowed to communicate.That is what kills Mastodon from within, reducing instances to uninteresting silos.
(DIR) Post #AU4jLM3EL99KpKYz32 by peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv
2023-03-28T13:12:34Z
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@rolle Despite Google+ being result of Google knee jerking about Facebook, I actually liked it way better. And yes, it was actually killed by leadership because shareholders.There are good reasons why after that lot of Fediverse stuff kicked off. It was common understanding that corporations doing this are just not gonna cut it.
(DIR) Post #AU4mgXm2FaGP7zJdia by beecycling@romancelandia.club
2023-03-28T13:50:00Z
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@rolle As the shockwave of the sun exploding approaches the Earth, you'll hear someone crowing "I told you Mastodon wouldn't last."
(DIR) Post #AU4yk99kuzBtO1tZK4 by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:05:11Z
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@beecycling Hahaha 😂
(DIR) Post #AU4zCYuQlNsjMkHD3w by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:10:20Z
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@swagpussc I remember Bebo! Good times. @atomicpoet
(DIR) Post #AU4zEp0dsG2HsYG9BI by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:10:42Z
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@mori Exactly! Ps. I like your name, it's in my instance.
(DIR) Post #AU4zGdNu49BuP80IzI by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:11:03Z
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@euklidiadas That is true. I like to say it as well. Just look at my instance name!
(DIR) Post #AU4zIT4hMtZ90ZtZse by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:11:21Z
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@ErikJonker I liked it as well.
(DIR) Post #AU4zp5pOouMKSxIQOe by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:17:10Z
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@santiago Doesn't make sense to me. IRC is not a social media and Mastodon is not old fashioned. :thinking_rotate: + I still use IRC every day. IRC is not out of fashion :blobwink: Other parts I do agree.
(DIR) Post #AU4zrFtcMHM0GqIgZk by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:17:35Z
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@harald Good point.
(DIR) Post #AU4zw5ndKAp0P9o8tk by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:18:31Z
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@GrahamDowns Exactly.
(DIR) Post #AU4zx1aWT4nTdI7UW0 by writer13@blob.cat
2023-03-28T08:21:08.194474Z
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@rolle Except the internet already died. What we are using now is the 3rd or 4th version of it really, and has no similarities to the original 90s web, or very little.Mastodon itself while never die, it will never take off either. It has so many problems, because the devs are just handholding everybody via software. It’s crap!
(DIR) Post #AU4zx2BkEgZTUjXDX6 by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:18:40Z
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@writer13 A valid point.
(DIR) Post #AU500OoaZFEUXRJAxM by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:19:20Z
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@writer13 "it will never take off either. It has so many problems, because the devs are just handholding everybody via software. It’s crap!"Hmm okay...
(DIR) Post #AU50IX2Gk42LFMLyKW by smitten@snowdin.town
2023-03-28T16:15:03.958082Z
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@rolle (I'm being pedantic, sorry)Mastodon could possibly die if the project is mismanaged or stays reluctant to new features. ActivityPub and fedi network in general won't though, they are like the new SMTP or BitTorrent.
(DIR) Post #AU50IXka5JTxSn5MOm by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-28T16:22:33Z
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@smitten Yeah, I should have replaced the word "Mastodon" with the ActivityPub protocol or Fediverse, but I just wanted to make this easier to understand by the general public.
(DIR) Post #AU5BHk7vgMrX3SpMLA by breadbin@bitbang.social
2023-03-28T18:25:41Z
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@rolle G+ was built to monetize, the fediverse was built to communicate.Can’t tell what will happen to it, but only one has a monetary goal. I do think G+ had some neat ideas though, that I haven’t seen copied.
(DIR) Post #AU5BX6FzgYyW29vF56 by swagpussc@mastodon.social
2023-03-28T18:28:25Z
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@rolleMy Bebo was sooo based, it had a Sunny Day Real Estate background mp3 on landing, and a poem of the day written by me! So cool, that era of the internet was awesome - LiveJournal, MySpace, Bebo, iGoogle, early YouTube, Google Video, early Wikipedia. @atomicpoet
(DIR) Post #AU5F9AUWgqz027Z0QS by ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
2023-03-28T19:08:55Z
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@rolle The internet is just a fad. Give it a century or two, and it'll pass away, like platform shoes and bell bottom jeans.
(DIR) Post #AU7uAANV58OYPMn9RQ by afif@mastodon.social
2023-03-30T01:57:55Z
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@rolle rogue asteroid: hold my beer!
(DIR) Post #AU87fCTubtDdJSv3PE by lucywildboots@venera.social
2023-03-30T03:10:27Z
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@rolle @santiago But might you agree that you are minority? I think many of us have used many things over the decades.
(DIR) Post #AU87fDELpEMjdUe8n2 by rolle@mementomori.social
2023-03-30T04:29:11Z
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@lucywildboots Not everything has to be viral, but on my IRC channel there's still 100+ users daily.But yeah, I get what you mean. The majority are on Facebook or use WhatsApp. I don't. But I thank myself for that, because mentally I've been much better compared to the late 2000s when I got into those for a while.@santiago
(DIR) Post #AU8XxudxkjUCIfCgpE by santiago@masto.lema.org
2023-03-30T09:23:56Z
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@rolle @lucywildboots out of fashion doesn’t mean dead indeed. I’d rather be out of everything that is “in fashion”. I am actually quite happy to see mastodon to be big enough to have interactions but still small and independent enough that big business or scammers have little interest in it.