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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 21:29:56 JST Aral Balkan

   If you’re trying to make Mastodon into pre-Elon Twitter, you haven’t learned a single damn thing.

   #mastodon #fediverse #twitter

   • Scott M. Stolz (scott@scottstolz.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 23:12:03 JST Scott M. Stolz

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     • yetzt
     @yetzt One thing that possibly makes this different than the "gentrification cycle" you mentioned is that it costs very little money to host your own instance, and is even free if you find a public instance with open registration. This gives access to everyone with an internet connection, not just the people who have money. If enough people have their own federated account on the small web, that would shift power towards the individual, not mega-corporations, because the individual is not dependent on them anymore.
   • yetzt (yetzt@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 23:12:04 JST yetzt

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     @aral i feel it's like gentrification cycles; there is a nice thing then it becomes mainstream and commercialized and then it's shit. rinse and repeat. i believe the only way to break the cycle is to make something resistant to concentration of power, unownable and ungovernable.