> Whatever I think of whoever’s running mastodon.cloud, I have a lot of posts over there, some of which I care about. For now, they’re still there, but I’m not contributing any money to those guys, nor will I, so if they pull the plug and vanish I can’t complain. Only if they do, so do all those posts that I cared about back then and still do a bit.
"Nor will I" seems a bit strong here. This pain point seems rather self-inflicted, is it not? You get what you pay for and the ownership model of the Fediverse is you help pay for your instance (or instances). If you want ownership of your posts, become an owner of your instance.
That's one of the big reasons why I trust the Fediverse a lot more than AtProto. BlueSky is VC funded and the ownership model is hard to define and the business model is "ads now, maybe worse ads tomorrow". With the Fediverse I can own my instance like I can (and do) own my blog. I myself am not an ad company and I don't have to worry about future me injecting increasingly worse ads into my instance (and I'm free to block and defederate instances that think spam is a good idea).
You get what you pay for, and I'm happier to pay for a tiny corner of the Fediverse than try to be a sharecropper in AtProto with the possibility that Maybe Someday TM it will be distributed enough to matter (to avoid BlueSky's business model).
"Nor will I" seems a bit strong here. This pain point seems rather self-inflicted, is it not? You get what you pay for and the ownership model of the Fediverse is you help pay for your instance (or instances). If you want ownership of your posts, become an owner of your instance.
That's one of the big reasons why I trust the Fediverse a lot more than AtProto. BlueSky is VC funded and the ownership model is hard to define and the business model is "ads now, maybe worse ads tomorrow". With the Fediverse I can own my instance like I can (and do) own my blog. I myself am not an ad company and I don't have to worry about future me injecting increasingly worse ads into my instance (and I'm free to block and defederate instances that think spam is a good idea).
You get what you pay for, and I'm happier to pay for a tiny corner of the Fediverse than try to be a sharecropper in AtProto with the possibility that Maybe Someday TM it will be distributed enough to matter (to avoid BlueSky's business model).