Really though, why does mastodon have to be the "twitter killer"? Can't it just be a thing?
Capitalism makes it so natural for us to rhink in terms of scarcity that usually doesn't exist or doesn't *have* to exist.
@JillianMaywhether I wish this was easier to explain to people. I blame a lifetime of living in a capitalist society or something like that. I wonder if people who haven't been indoctrinated into a capitalist system would have the same problems accepting it.
@JillianMaywhether I'm hoping very much the general population of twitter doesn't move over here- people who love the twitter, stay over there cause here is great so far without them =P
because too many daft writers have a desperate need to promote some kind of conflict to draw their attention
Gotta be honest, I thought the idea that people only have enough time for so many social networks doesn't have to do anything with capitalism.
Like, I spend time running my Twitter account, and I also spend time running this Mastodon account. And I would very much like to once find out all the people I care about are on Mastodon, so that I would no longer have to run the Twitter account.
@JillianMaywhether isn't this the beauty of capitalism? That different services can exist to serve the needs of different groups? If there is a large enough market for the service then it will succeed.
@JillianMaywhether I think this is a really interesting point! It is a very capitalistic concept of devouring the other. I like it as it's own thing. Also, if it became a replacement or perhaps as big, I worry it would change for the worse? #Paranoia perhaps?
@JillianMaywhether Because news needs a narrative, even if it's a false one, to sell and relate a story. And conflict is the simplest narrative there is: A vs. B.
So: Ignore the media, or at least that part. Look for legitimate gripes. The stuff about nmap scans and network security, the Japanese Influx and what that means for language tools (translation, filters), scaling generally. There's real questions that are going around.
Proving open works is the narrative.
@JillianMaywhether Communism will prevail, comrade.
@JillianMaywhether oh no Twitter shouldn't die per say. just become obsolete, like Nazi 8-tracks.
@JillianMaywhether Mastodon doesn't kill Twitter - it's more that Twitter is committing suicide.
@JillianMaywhether My take. The media is spinning Mastodon "the twitter killer", most of the users, not all granted, but most I have read, simply state why Mastodon is a better alternative. Twitter will die, maybe not because of Mastodon, but because it's model and functionality is flawed, and it has outlasted itself.
@JillianMaywhether yes, this seems to be kind of the point of how the federation is set up, it doesn't actually compete with anything else since it is made to work *with* other things.