[ddevault]

I think a major "innovation" from Mastodon was integrating with the GNUSocial and ActivityPub networks. Mastodon is new and shiny, like many other attempted decentralized social networks have been. But what's crazy is that it's new and shiny and built on the old social networks, so it inherits their communities and reinvigorates the old communities. This novel approach to "make a new social network" contributes greatly to Mastodon's success imo.

I think we should keep trying. All private internet services are doomed to die. It's inevitable. Only decentralized services can live on and keep us truly free.