Because you need network effect. Which means you need big money for marketing, content moderation and development costs. That includes algorithms, which maybe you don’t want, but most people do.
It’s not that I want a for profit company, I just don’t think Mastodon will every achieve critical mass without one.
Yeah, but the network effect isn’t really the cause of the problem I’d say. If people wouldn’t just run to the next best thing and think about things, they could come to the conclusion to use Mastodon.
Probably will never happen and I don’t see a solution for this, but it’s still just demoralizing.
Because you need network effect. Which means you need big money for marketing, content moderation and development costs. That includes algorithms, which maybe you don’t want, but most people do.
It’s not that I want a for profit company, I just don’t think Mastodon will every achieve critical mass without one.
Yeah, but the network effect isn’t really the cause of the problem I’d say. If people wouldn’t just run to the next best thing and think about things, they could come to the conclusion to use Mastodon.
Probably will never happen and I don’t see a solution for this, but it’s still just demoralizing.