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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 This was pretty good, I disagree with their comments about fragmentation. At least on the fediverse side of things. I don't know or care about gab
@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.)
