Hilarious realization I had last night …
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so your social platform could get shuttered!”
Me, looking at Google’s graveyard of platforms and features that they shutter, pouring one out for G+.
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so I’d have to start over”
Me, looking at SixDegrees which was shuttered, only to be resold and turned into Linkedin so we all had to start over, lol
People REALLY don’t remember history, not even in their own lifetime, about how professional tech companies - even billion dollar ones - shutter things on them ALL THE TIME 😂
#Fediverse#ActivityPub
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@growfediverse
> your social platform could get shuttered!
Having ridden the bleeding edge since the early days of the web, I've had a fair few services disappear out from under me, both community-hosted and corporate-hosted. I agree with you that the corporate ones aren't immune to being shut down, but I have to admit it happens less, and often with more warning.
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Reliability of hosting makes people more hesitant to do more than dabble in a new service, which does limit adoption. If we can solve that, we've got something to offer that's more useful to people than proprietary services. Ways to do that could include building community institutions that make hosting more sustainable, or by making accounts and data less dependent on SPoF hosts, or both.
@growfediverse
It cant be shittered or shuttered. Plus your posts are portable, so you can move to a competing platform whenever you like.
It cant be shittered or shuttered. Plus your posts are portable, so you can move to a competing platform whenever you like.