Imagine if Gmail only let you read 300 emails a day. Would you still use Gmail?
Personally, I wouldn’t. I’d tell Google to take a hike as I’d start doing all my emailing on Outlook or Zoho or Proton—or whatever service let’s me use email in the least annoying way possible.
Now replace “Gmail” with “Twitter”—and that’s basically what’s happened today. Twitter is limiting how many tweets you’re allowed to see.
Well, if Twitter is preventing you from seeing *your* messages, are you going to put up with that?
Personally, I wouldn’t. I’d tell Google to take a hike as I’d start doing all my emailing on Outlook or Zoho or Proton—or whatever service let’s me use email in the least annoying way possible.
Now replace “Gmail” with “Twitter”—and that’s basically what’s happened today. Twitter is limiting how many tweets you’re allowed to see.
Well, if Twitter is preventing you from seeing *your* messages, are you going to put up with that?
We all know Mastodon has flaws. But whatever flaws Mastodon has, it still fixes a fundamental flaw with Twitter: one asshole can disrupt service at Twitter, while Mastodon’s service can’t be disrupted due to it being decentralized.
Now don’t get me wrong. Individual admins on specific Mastodon servers can be asshole who disrupt service. We have seen this happen.
But due to Mastodon’s decentralization, asshole behaviour of server admins has limited impact. If you don’t like your asshole admin, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere to a better, nicer server.
Think of decentralization as an “asshole limiter”. Twitter has no asshole limiter. Mastodon does.
Now don’t get me wrong. Individual admins on specific Mastodon servers can be asshole who disrupt service. We have seen this happen.
But due to Mastodon’s decentralization, asshole behaviour of server admins has limited impact. If you don’t like your asshole admin, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere to a better, nicer server.
Think of decentralization as an “asshole limiter”. Twitter has no asshole limiter. Mastodon does.
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@atomicpoet This was my original interesting in AP protocol. Even if the centralized platform has a benevolent leader, it is too much power for one person to have regarding content moderation and feature development. I guess that logic extends to the power to run a business into the ground.
