Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo If it's built on the same protocol, how does it distinguish itself?

Next on the docket: A minimum age for dancing.

@pieist Then I still would have left. Beyond his support for right-wing trolls, he's an odious attention hog forcing his juvenile and desperate content on his captive audience. That would have been enough for me to leave.

That said, would it be so awful if people left because of the larger content shift on the platform? Voting with one's feet is a quintessential lever in the marketplace of ideas.

@pieist In that hypothetical, would Musk be one of the people I liked? Because that's a difficult hypothetical to evaluate.

@shoq Yes, from what I understand of how Mastodon handles its decentralized infrastructure, more users/servers means exponentially more data, which means slower load times and more money spent by server owners.

In theory, you'd like the decentralized servers to balance the load. But instead, Mastodon is designed to store inboxes locally on each server, so each server has to store not only its own data, but also the data that other servers have pushed to it (i.e. the feeds you subscribe to). It's redundant and expensive, but the reason they did it (presumably) is because content from a server won't entirely vanish if that server vanishes.

@shoq The jealousy and desperation is just dripping off that tweet. He's going to date a man next week just for likes and retweets isn't he?

@Westdragon @RollingStone There exist people between the two ends of the spectrum.

More importantly, we don't need any more preaching to the choir.

@RollingStone You guys do realize that using terms like "Dark Brandon" severely undermines any point you make, right?

It's like a subtle scream, telling people "don't bother reading this unless you already agree with the premise".

@saint11 Consider yourself lucky. At least you haven't locked yourself into a pattern that doesn't universally fit. I've found myself hamstrung in the past by thinking there was a "right way".

@acjay Yeah, but do those features outweigh the weak point of being owned by Dorsey?