Hi Niall, thanks for this. It's a great round-up of much that's good about Mastodon and some stuff that's not ideal.
One thing you don't mention is the fact that the Mastodon software is open source. [I'm sure you know all the stuff that follows, but I'm writing this so you don't have to.] This is important because it means that it's effectively owned by the public, and free for all to see. This makes it far harder to commercialise. If someone chooses to do so, there's no way they can force the rest of the Fediverse to follow suit. So it's a lot more proof from takeover than the commercial social media sites have been. The open source model has been highly successful in things like the Linux operating system, languages like php and python, the apache web server software, and a huge number of other things that underly much of the workings of the internet and applications that run on it.
I don’t know what I like more Niall, the content of the Clock Card poems, or that lovely linen-looking table- cloth (I’m assuming it’s a table cloth, and linen?) too many people neglect table-cloths these days.
Also, not heard of Mastodon, might have a butchers, I like the idea of it, glad it’s bringing you in some new eyeballs!
Hi Niall, thanks for this. It's a great round-up of much that's good about Mastodon and some stuff that's not ideal.
One thing you don't mention is the fact that the Mastodon software is open source. [I'm sure you know all the stuff that follows, but I'm writing this so you don't have to.] This is important because it means that it's effectively owned by the public, and free for all to see. This makes it far harder to commercialise. If someone chooses to do so, there's no way they can force the rest of the Fediverse to follow suit. So it's a lot more proof from takeover than the commercial social media sites have been. The open source model has been highly successful in things like the Linux operating system, languages like php and python, the apache web server software, and a huge number of other things that underly much of the workings of the internet and applications that run on it.
Sunny Singh's article is an excellent eloquent eye-opener. Very interesting.
I don’t know what I like more Niall, the content of the Clock Card poems, or that lovely linen-looking table- cloth (I’m assuming it’s a table cloth, and linen?) too many people neglect table-cloths these days.
Also, not heard of Mastodon, might have a butchers, I like the idea of it, glad it’s bringing you in some new eyeballs!
Properly summed up, by both of yous,, I'd say..