A “Not Twitter Foundation” that runs an installation of an Open Source implementation of a scalable micro blogging platform is very appealing to me.
How/why could this not be a big Mastodon instance itself? Because it inherently communicates with replica servers? I think there are easily achievable improvements to be made to Mastodon/social networks via ActivityPub, but don't see the author's argument as compelling for any reason. A "market-based" solution could just as easily be "pay $5/yr for your own auto-maintained, single-tenant mastodon server"
How/why could this not be a big Mastodon instance itself? Because it inherently communicates with replica servers? I think there are easily achievable improvements to be made to Mastodon/social networks via ActivityPub, but don't see the author's argument as compelling for any reason. A "market-based" solution could just as easily be "pay $5/yr for your own auto-maintained, single-tenant mastodon server"