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1. Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:45:07 EST Eugen

   A lot of folks' fear is that when Mastodon grows it'll absorb bad people. I'm gonna say this. I think even if Mastodon literally grows to the size of current Twitter, the world will be better off overall just because of how Mastodon is structured and what values it represents and what tools it provides for dealing with those problems.

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 09:27:42 EST lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @Gargron #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations. The challenge of growth for the #fediverse is going to be trying to spread users over more instances and keeping those instances smaller, instead of having most of them clump together in a few larger instances.
      
      At large enough scale, the larger instances will face exactly the same pressures and choices that Twitter faced. There won't be enough #Patreon funders to sustain that.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 09:29:36 EST lnxw48a1

         in reply to
         " #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations."
         
         Or more specifically, when those VCs pushed them to adopt an ad-based model and then IPO.
      2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 09:34:46 EST Bob Mottram

         in reply to
         @lnxw48a1 @gargron The challenge for fediverse growth is really more about sustainable admining. So anything which makes the job of the instance admin simpler will help, including things like having a recommended way to cover any hosting costs.