The problem with starting a new social media app is the chicken and egg thing where people need content (and other people) and content only exists if there are people. Network effects. ActivityPub avoids that hurdle.
So that makes it possible to enter the game with much less capital. That's nice but personally I'm here for the billionaire-resistant nature of it and the better moderation.
- No one can 'do a Musk' to Mastodon and if they did everyone would just fork it and defederate from his instance.
- Without an advertising-based business model we don't need to encourage controversy and nurture dickheads, we can just ban them. Same goes for fake news sources.
We have the potential to create something far more human and revolutionary than any of the ad-based mainstream platforms.
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