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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would love for the federated model to become a gold standard for how successful platforms ought to be run.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed, platforms should compete by providing better UX and features, not by abusing network effects and walling off themselves to hold communities and accounts hostage. In a way the fediverse provides a common carrier that is neutral to the users and platforms connected to it, which enables competition in the same way that guaranteeing equal access to physical internet infrastructure to new ISPs is essential to preventing ISP monopolies.

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