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If it's such a sure investment, why not do it yourself? You can fork Mastadon[1] and get the thing deployed this afternoon!

The "network effect" isn't some little thing you can easily solve. Like saying "building rockets is easy, the designs are all there, just solve the gravity problem".

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon




I would absolutely do this myself if I had not already committed to an existing startup.

Also, I don't think you quite get what I mean if you think Mastadon is what I'm talking about.

For example, can I run ads across all of Mastadon?




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