Seven Years on Mastodon
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The author reflects on their seven-year experience with Mastodon, highlighting its potential as a decentralized alternative to traditional social media, with the discussion focusing on the implications and challenges of such platforms.
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It doesnt have to become mainstream to be extremely valuable. If it could become a high quality niche community of geeks and hackers, like HN, it could be very awesome. Maybe it could be to twitter what HN is to reddit?
This is exactly what Mastodon has become to me.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646083