Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Mastodon founder has a message for Elon Musk" video.

  1. Business-wise, you have to admit he’s currently doing a bit better than Twitter.
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  2. It’s a decentralized architecture for building your own social network. You can “federate” with other Mastodon instances (if they will have you), or go off on your own. For example, the Orange One used it as the basis for his Twitter-alike. Development first started in 2017. And they’ve picked up more users in the last couple of months than in the previous five years.
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  3. There is no “market”. He’s not selling anything.
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  4. There is no “business model”; this is a nonprofit. His aim is to produce the software and give it away.
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  5. How about LBRY? Vimeo? Dailymotion?
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  6. He’s truly demonstrating a Trumpian business sense -- managing to destroy stock value in two companies at once!
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  7. Next he’s killing off all the third-party Twitter apps.
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  8. At least it’s not losing money and haemorrhaging staff, like Twitter. It’s been around for six years. I heard someone say once “it can take years to become an overnight success”.
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  9. To be fair, those users are a fairly independent-minded bunch, capable of taking care of themselves, without some “nanny” to run to every time they click on something and it doesn’t work.
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  10. Some people want to be looked after by a nanny; this is for those who value their freedom to do things their way.
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  11. Because that represents a massive hit to revenue--oh wait, it doesn’t.
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  12. There is an off-switch, just like on your TV. Use it.
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