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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 17:25:13 UTC Bob Mottram
   (cringe) This is what I'd call technologically illiterate journalism. It's not quite as bad as complaining about the name of the project (insert crying baby gif), but it's not far elevated above that level.
   
   https://medium.com/dark-mountain/fatal-flaw-with-mastodon-1ef0cb1965ed
   
   He mentions that the system is distributed, but obviously hasn't grokked what that actually means.
   
   Servers have user accounts. I know, shocking, isn't it? Same applies for email, xmpp, forums and just about any other service located on a server. They're not all magically synchronized by some universally agreed protocol. Nor would it be reasonable for them to be.
   
   If you want a pre-internet analogy, there could be Bob living in Manchester and Bob living in Glasgow, and they might be different Bobs!
   
   Scandalized? I thought you would be.
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   • Chris (csaurus@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 18:09:52 UTC Chris

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     @bob damn, that article is god-awful. He almost seems to get it in the first paragraph then quickly nosedives into "I don't know how to use the internet without corporate overlords helping me" territory.
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   • Paul Pritchard (expatpaul@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 18:23:38 UTC Paul Pritchard

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     @bob While we're at it, let's ban TLDs. It's terrible that I need a .com a .org and a .net
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