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Twitter Rival Mastodon's Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media (time.com)

submitted 2 years ago by uthredii@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] poVoq 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Its really worth thinking about the fact that more or less a single person has developed a software that has all the core functionality of Twitter... a company that has been bought for 40bn $ and used to have nearly 10k employees.

So what are these other developers doing exactly? Sure, some need to run the service itself and Twitter is probably more optimized than Mastodon, but by far the most of these people work on the advertisement part of Twitter.

Imagine a TV station having 99% of their workforce doing advertisement only...

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Algorithms?

[–] poVoq 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Used to push advertisement mostly ;)

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tell that to people unwilling to leave twitter because they are struggling to find content on mastodon. The major benefit of big social media companies is typically that they provide an algorithm to content that people find interesting by paying an invasive amount of attention to what you do on their websites and how you interact with content.

While not everyone is as interested in an algorithms idea of what we would like to see or content we would enjoy, to ignore that many people out there are very interested or to paint it as purely a means of advertisement ignores why some humans are still on these platforms and the source of their attraction.

[–] Canard@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Your comment reminds me the PeerTube situation. Only one developer was needed to create this YouTube alternative.

[–] vekku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So what are these other developers doing exactly?

Based on my experience of being in a mid-sized org: Meetings and drinking coffee. I have no idea how these things can function.

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

Great to see something other than a token soundbite in a twitter article