[liberationtech] Wealthy entrepreneurs ask whether you would use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?

[Petter Ericson]

On 28 april, 2022 - Bill Woodcock wrote:

> 
> 
> > On Apr 28, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps worth putting to the 'wealthy entrepreneurs' that they may consider
> > donating instead to Mastodon's development/bug-bounties, an existing migration
> > target that is free, open source, and already supporting very large populations
> > across its many instances. If they would chose otherwise, I would question their
> > motives from the outset.
> 
> In principle, I agree with that last.
> 
> However, Mastodon is not the be-all-and-end-all of social media.  There’s plenty of room for competition and improvement and new ideas.

Looking into all the various programs that federate over ActivityPub there is,
in fact, quite a lot of competition and improvement and new ideas already.

Everything from blogging (WriteFreely) to video hosting and distribution
(PeerTube) to picture sharing (Pixiv) to book reviews (BookWyrm) to just loads
of different flavours of microblogging (e.g. Pleroma and various forks of
Mastodon).

I personally might have preferred the ecosystem stayed with OStatus, but
there's no arguing that the ActivityPub protocol hasn't had a lot more success.

/P

-- 
Petter Ericson (pettter at acc.umu.se)