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none of them. mastodon is not innovative from a UX or business model perspective, it's an explicitly derivative product meant to be like Twitter. there is already a Twitter and it is already not much of a threat to other social networks.

the innovations in mastodon are how the network is administrated and (arguably) the differences in culture that network federation creates as an alternative to a centralized platform. those innovations can't be copied or bought by a company already committed to centralized administration, which is almost certainly a compulsory thing for a for-profit business.




This is good to hear--I'd like to know more about how network federations scale when they approach things like critical mass. I hope they have mechanisms in place to safeguard against influence from centralized platforms.




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