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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 12:57:12 CEST Aral Balkan

   • Eugen

   The greatest challenge for Mastodon now that it’s getting mainstream attention is to figure out how to resist “embrace and privatise”.

   Tomorrow Google announces Gastodon. What do you do to stop it becoming Gmail?

   Suggestions:

   1. Push for instances of one

   2. In order to make instances of one viable, simplify the complexity of the app itself: the lighter it is, the less dependencies, the easier it is to host. Installation should be no more difficult than sudo apt install mastodon

   CC @Gargron

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   • Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: (njoseph@social.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 13:11:06 CEST Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:

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     @aral The software called Mastodon is protected from EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) abuse by the AGPLv3 license. Any changes made to Mastodon must follow the same license and must be made public.

     ActivityPub OTOH, is susceptible to the EEE strategy. First some MegaCorpX will make an ActivityPub-based social network and gather a lot of users. Then they will add more features than there are in the spec. The third step is to stop federating with other ActivityPub instances.

     e.g. Slack vs. IRC

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   • Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 13:17:36 CEST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

     in reply to

     • Eugen
     @aral @Gargron I considered this problem in https://wiki.freedombone.net/view/welcome-visitors/view/a-peoples-history-of-the-fediverse/view/counter-strategies-to-the-fediverse
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   • feral yogi (feralyogi@sunbeam.city)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 04:39:24 CEST feral yogi

     in reply to

     • Eugen

     @aral @Gargron that’s why I set up my own Instance with masto.host. I don’t do programming. Masto.host builds the site, provides maintenance and data storage. It’s only $6/mo US. Self-programmed sites aren’t free either. Eventually you have to pay for data storage. It always ends up costing you something. Services like Masto.host increase diversity because it makes MSTDN accessible to non-programmers.

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