Futurist Jim Carroll on Nostr: A good read from npub10sp3d…633p6 on why Mastodon is the place to be. A really good ...
A good read from npub10sp3du5uy74eu08h6l906swg4hgdqxzschpsuxa8lwthnyp7ck7st633p6 (npub10sp…33p6) on why Mastodon is the place to be. A really good read on why my decision to host my own Mastodon instance is even smarter.
"But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were *all* started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I *know* those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.
They *did* care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils."
#selfhost #Selfhosting
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
"But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were *all* started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I *know* those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.
They *did* care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils."
#selfhost #Selfhosting
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast