Discovered: Apr 10, 2025 07:11 ME:: There is a world where a truly excellent User Experience for Mastodon and Matrix and other open decentralized networks is funded just like Bluesky and Slack are funded ; READ and LISTEN:: Ethan Zuckerman and Nathan Schneider:: 110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst <– QUOTE: As much as the (Bluyesky) team talks about trying to make their platform billionaire-proof, it’s really not quite built that way. And the Fediverse, Mastodon and related apps offer this opportunity to really turn toward a network that is not captureable. But this is a network whose total expenditure, whose total investment in technology is like what, around a million dollars a year in that kind of order of magnitude compared to companies that are running on billions.

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