Besides a few neckbeard types, does any significant number of people actually care about Mastadoon? I remember App.net got all buzzy several years ago. Whatever happened to that? Facebook got big because college students wanted to get laid and that’s where their friends were. Twitter got big because it captured the Zeitgiest and had a FOMO aspect. I am not sure what Mastadoon has going for it to convince normal people to care.
How is a Twitter client developer going to actually make any money on this? How is anyone going to make money on this?
> Besides a few neckbeard types, does any significant number of people actually care about Mastadoon?
The problem with this kind of argument is that it also explains why nobody uses that neckbeard internet thing and everyone still uses telephones and TV.
And, in a way, that is true. But the internet still exists.
I do, though I haven't adopted it yet. At some point, a new protocol will get social media right, and free itself from walled gardens.
I don't know if it will be Mastodon, but I'll keep looking with interest until it happens. Mastodon seems to get a bunch of things right, and it may evolve into a more-open (and messier) Face-gram-ter-+ that gets enough traction to thrive.
People derive a lot of value from email. A protocol like this should be viewed as something like email.
mastodon is used by pixiv here in Japan, which is essentially what deviantart used to be -- a sprawling, incredibly active community of artists (amateur, semi-professional, and professional alike).
How is a Twitter client developer going to actually make any money on this? How is anyone going to make money on this?