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1. Most Johnly of Henries (johnhenry@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 16:47:31 UTC Most Johnly of Henries

   mastodon is at an interesting, precarious intersection between basic UX minimum requirements and long-term political architcture wins (federation). user experience is _going_ to suck for any platform not funded by VCs and huge teams of full-time UX gurus, but the price you pay for that is your souls (advertising needs and eventually censorship)

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   • ultimape 🐜💩 💛 (ultimape@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 16:57:15 UTC ultimape 🐜💩 💛

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     @johnhenry One of the long term failures states of federated platforms could be a centralized corporation - ("google") takes over and effectively centralizes it. Network effects of an app means they become the defacto content server. IIRC, this is how xmpp died and why some core developers chose to go with something non-federated. This is why Telehash exists.

     Still really cool though. This reminds me of gnusocial.

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   • Most Johnly of Henries (johnhenry@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 17:01:35 UTC Most Johnly of Henries

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     @ultimape i have hope that the collective consciousness of humanity increasingly remembers things like xmpp / google reader / twitter protocol, etc, and eventually stop falling for the lucy football thing re: long-term federated services and centralized companies that offer better UX.

     funny you should mention gnu social here; there's a complicated history here, and mastodon/gnu social people already are quite schism'd and don't super get along (from what i understand)

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 20:44:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @ultimape @johnhenry This is the same network as GNU Social. I am replying to you from GNU Social right now.