The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

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    11 months ago

    Six reasons why I’m not reading this article.

    Click bait headline

    Doom premise

    Random author who has no say on if a platform does or does not succeed

    Its impossible for mastodon to “not survive” because it’s decentralized

    Its not a hot new thing it’s been around a long time.

    I’ve already read a million articles like this that always boil down to “I don’t like this therefore it will fail” or “it’s not exactly like Twitter therefore it will fail” or the one I sympathize but hate hearing is “it’s to hard”

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        11 months ago

        Nah because if someone wants to host it the source code will be there for them to do so.