BuzzFeed Editor in Chief, Ben Smith, mentions Mastodon as an example of a social network that "comes after the social media empires"
re: rise of Switter: "Perhaps the most striking lesson here was the technical ease of spinning a big, functional new social network up in just a few days"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation?utm_term=.lcQdKZJQ8#.cm5Y4q1Vx
@schlink "Just a few days" I don't think @Gargron will agree after working a year alone I think on Mastodon code before it became "famous" ;p
Actually the success took a few days when main medias talked about it and more and more sysadmins installed their instance but it take a lot of work to make it successful :)
@anarchosaurus @schlink The fediverse is pretty fragmented. It looks like you have to start your own single-user instance if you don't want to deal with blocklists.
(This isn't really an avoidable problem -- cross-country legal differences require defederation in some cases.)
One thought: is @switter a social network? Or should it be considered part of the Mastodon social network? Or is the broader Fediverse the social network?
OR (D) all of the above / "social network" is not a useful term here?
@schlink Really impressed at how context-aware he is in writing this: "Can I write this whole article without selling you on blockchain, which has no obvious connection to this decentralization despite the frequent linkage of the words? I can."
Because every other article seems to bring that one out for no apparent reason other than the SEO value of the word blockchain.