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reading a bunch of comments about Mastodon on tech news sites about how it "will never succeed" or will go extinct. Problem is, that defines Mastodon's success in the metrics of Silicon Valley VC. The point of Mastodon does not appear to be a growth -> exit -> brand vehicle strategy that Twitter has been struggling with.
I'm having a good time here. Isn't that success enough?
@PolymerWitch You are right, the tech news is fundamentally focused on the 'winner-take-all' mentality of the Valley. Mastodon feels like the farmers market / local co-op to the Wal-Mart of Twitter. The two just fundamentally serve different functions right now.
@PolymerWitch @oneoffsuit EXCELLENT analogy. The challenge will be in ensuring it stays that way. Corporatists are going to fight to monetize it and it will be on us and those who run the instances to push back and disallow it.