I can see that. I also see mastodon servers (gargon finally admitted that "instance" wasn't the best idea) as akin to forums, which required similar cash and technical expertise to set up, with the arguable advantages that people can talk to each other across different servers.
But, a large chunk of my frustration here as someone who's been in the computer-mediated communication world going on three decades now is that everything has failed in different ways. Centralized services either become actively evil (Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google) or run into a serious funding pinch where they struggle maintaining quality of service (Metafilter, Dreamwidth).
So we're stuck between choosing micro-services where administration is possibly untrustworthy, vs. mega-services that are absolutely untrustworthy. At least on mastodon (queer.town possibly moving to lgbt.io), I'm substantially less likely to get dogpiled by terfs and biphobes using search tools.
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Date: 2019-02-04 01:30 pm (UTC)But, a large chunk of my frustration here as someone who's been in the computer-mediated communication world going on three decades now is that everything has failed in different ways. Centralized services either become actively evil (Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google) or run into a serious funding pinch where they struggle maintaining quality of service (Metafilter, Dreamwidth).
So we're stuck between choosing micro-services where administration is possibly untrustworthy, vs. mega-services that are absolutely untrustworthy. At least on mastodon (queer.town possibly moving to lgbt.io), I'm substantially less likely to get dogpiled by terfs and biphobes using search tools.