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by criddell 3165 days ago
So Twitter is big because it's big?
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michael_storm 3164 days ago
I don’t follow. Twitter is big because of all the things I just listed.
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gipp 3164 days ago
You just listed its components, the question was about why Twitter needs those things but Mastodon does not.
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michael_storm 3164 days ago
Because Twitter is a for-profit business, whereas Mastodon is not.
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criddell 3163 days ago
And they are up to around $2 billion in losses so far, right?

It sounds like they would be better off just being a Mastodon node.

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