Post #1338541
2023-04-28 21:53 UTC
@mmasnick nice article. I'd add to the long-term options:
- A "Chromebook" version of Mastodon, i.e. a non-techie, user-friendly version of Mastodon (a customized instance/app/etc.) that makes it appealing to the average person, who has zero interest in federation/servers/etc. Just as Chromebooks are customized-but-user-friendly Linux desktops, and became way more popular vs. Ubuntu/Linux Mint/etc. Linux/Mastodon purists wouldn't like them, but, well...
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@dtgeek@mastodon.social 2023-04-28 21:56
@mmasnick - Twitter gets replaced with... nothing. People could opt to just give up on Twitter-like social networks (especially after Musk's antics) and just go back to using Facebook (or Instagram/etc.). Twitter didn't have as big a user base vs other networks to begin with, and the push in social media (and investors in such) these days is "pivoting to video/multimedia" (TikTok, Instagram, etc.), not text.
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@mmasnick@mastodon.social 2023-04-28 23:03
@dtgeek yeah, early on I referred to that ideas as the "gmail of mastodon." Just a simple clean, easy to use, implementation that you tell your parents to use.