@inthehands IMO anything besides active denial measures (proof of work e.g. Anubis) is pointless. These companies don’t care about consent, and if they do that care is completely predicated on a few important nerds being in positions of power. That won’t last forever, especially in an environment where a larger and larger number of software engineers are people cashing a check rather than people who have a values based commitment to an open internet.

@janusfox Yeah, I was thinking about that today. All the web 1.0 stuff, there was never "the most followed person' or whatever. There were mods and prolific posters but that's just... a community. It's not this weird metrics game.

Of course this is the post that gets like hundreds of favs and reposts. Who are you people??! I hope you’re having a nice day but ahhh!!!

Yeah this is a strawman. No I don’t care.

People will be like “mastodon doesn’t have the reach of twitter”.

Okay, well I post my stupid little thoughts and I know for a fact it made 16 real people smile.

Why do you need more than that? You don’t want a social network you want a marketing platform. And that’s fine, but don’t confuse the two or pretend that you want one when you want the other.