"We already have a billionaire-proof social media."
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/bluesky-free-our-feeds-mastodon/
@alshafei leave bluesky to the techbros and leave mastodon to the introverts. It's very fine. We dont need growth for the sake of growth. We want friends in a cosy place.
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Quite surprised Doctorow threw his hat in the ring there, a financial pool with no legal entity sounds like its rife for laundering and corruption
Perhaps Mastodon is too efficient and thus not expensive enough to run. No big money needed (though a little helps of course).
The hype on #freeourfeed is so strange. I really like the text title : "US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel". It summarizes it all.
@alshafei Yup. But the difference is AT Protocol instances take millions to run.
Fediverse instances are too cheap.
Millions are newsworthy. That’s how people who don’t understand tech judge value.