People were worried when Mastodon went from 20,000 to 500,000 people too. I don't see why you would think 1mil -> 2mil to be any different. I really don't agree with the comments that suggest that Mastodon shouldn't grow.
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Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 22:17:19 UTC Eugen -
Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 22:45:07 UTC Eugen A lot of folks' fear is that when Mastodon grows it'll absorb bad people. I'm gonna say this. I think even if Mastodon literally grows to the size of current Twitter, the world will be better off overall just because of how Mastodon is structured and what values it represents and what tools it provides for dealing with those problems.
Hallå Kitteh repeated this. -
Sim Bot (sim@sealion.club)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 22:55:39 UTC Sim Bot @gargron Mastodon has already absorbed bad people so I don't see what all the fuss is about. Plus they can just be blocked when people perceive others as bad. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 14:27:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @Gargron #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations. The challenge of growth for the #fediverse is going to be trying to spread users over more instances and keeping those instances smaller, instead of having most of them clump together in a few larger instances.
At large enough scale, the larger instances will face exactly the same pressures and choices that Twitter faced. There won't be enough #Patreon funders to sustain that. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 14:29:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} " #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations."
Or more specifically, when those VCs pushed them to adopt an ad-based model and then IPO. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 14:34:46 UTC Bob Mottram @lnxw48a1 @gargron The challenge for fediverse growth is really more about sustainable admining. So anything which makes the job of the instance admin simpler will help, including things like having a recommended way to cover any hosting costs. -
kelbot (kelbot@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 16:53:41 UTC kelbot @lnxw48a1
Is it even possible for a company to sustain a user-friendly model long term? -
Brandon Hall (bthall@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 18:21:17 UTC Brandon Hall @lnxw48a1 @Gargron They'll face the same pressures, but I don't see why they'd need to cave to them. Large instances might have economies of scale, so more efficient than smaller instances.
Users might also be willing to pay more for media uploads/downloads, opening up market for media-less instances (that likely cost less).
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William Birkin (couldbeworse@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2017 05:16:51 UTC William Birkin @bob You're spot on - totally agree. -
synaesthetica (synaesthetica@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 17:48:14 UTC synaesthetica @lnxw48a1 @kelbot Then again, a monthly fee would lock out people who can't afford it, or are kids and would have to somehow convince their parents to pay for it. That wouldn't be good.
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