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1. Björn Schießle (bes@io.schiessle.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 08:14:56 UTC Björn Schießle
   "Mastodon broke the cardinal rule of social media: it separated them into silos" sorry @LanceUlanoff but this is not the "cardinal rule of social media". This the cardinal rule of walled gardens build to grow the product (the users) in order to sell them to advertisers. http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/mastodon-wont-survive/
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   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:13:27 UTC Bob Mottram

     in reply to
     @bes the Mashable article is perhaps the worst one I've seen about Mastodon. Probably written by a clueless tech journalist who did all of five mins of research.
   • Paul Pritchard (expatpaul@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:23:00 UTC Paul Pritchard

     in reply to
     @bes The shorter @LanceUlanoff: "It's mastodons fault that I'm too lazy and ignorant to understand anything that isn't Twitter."
   • AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2017 06:28:59 UTC AndStatus

     in reply to

     • Juanjo Faico
     • @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bes You opened my eyes, thank you. I thought that creation of a new custom client API for Mastodon with strictly centralized communication was a developer's desire to do at least something "new"... What a naive I was when I tried to argue at https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/419 that federation-oriented API would be better for GNU Social community and wandered why I wasn't heard...
     Now this looks like a deliberate decision for Mastodon to wall-garden users in separate instances. Quite appropriate for a corporate customer, but bad for federated social networking?!
     @mcscx
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