I Do Not Want A Mastodon | Oliver Darkshire on Patreon

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I love this <3

But on a serious note, I do get the fact a lot of people are not happy about #Twitter taking a hit from a nuclear missile called Elon. For a lot of people that was an important community, which is being actively destroyed. I feel for those people. And I also feel sad about the fact that one single man can destroy such a big and important platform all in one go.

It's annoying to be coming up with answers from hindsight - but hey maybe we shouldn't have large centralized platforms like Twitter that are able to be taken down by some douchebag billionaire. This is why we have decentralized platforms. They may be more complex to understand. They may not provide the same benefit for #capitalism to sell its products. But what they do well is provide resilience. No Elon can take down the #Fediverse - and that is a guarantee, not just words, because the fediverse is a collection of thousands of servers - and the number is going up by the day. Twitter is one server, which can be bought by a billionaire.

I don't want a #Mastodon either. I have my own platform, #Socialhome. But what I do want is to be a part of the Fediverse, and for social media to be more resilient to rich people going on shopping sprees for their own political agenda.