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unresolved_m t1_iyd4tgx wrote

Does that mean that people are going to talk face-to-face more?

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grapesinajar t1_iyd999w wrote

LiveJournal's time has finally come!

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TheUtopianCat OP t1_iydmih2 wrote

I genuinely miss LiveJournal. I met so many interesting people on that platform.

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mizmoxiev t1_iyehrj8 wrote

I honestly did too, some of my greatest friends in life from 15 years ago even still to this day came from LJ. I yearn for that exploratory exciting early internet feeling.

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gemininety4 t1_iydr0c9 wrote

Social networks got big because it's easier to make money. The article didn't cover what these smaller networks will do instead. I just looked up Discord because I was curious, and they're doing better than I'd expected. But still, it's hard to pay the bills on a free service with a small user base.

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Diegobyte t1_iyeql9l wrote

All you can do at that scale is try to charge users for premium services

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yaosio t1_iydj98s wrote

Mastodon's strength, and weakness, is that accounts and posts are stored on a single server. If that server goes away so does your account and everything you've posted. This is good if that's what you want, but bad if you don't want it to happen. Unlike Twitter or Reddit it's not meant to be a one stop place for all things social. It's intended to give people a way to communicate with a small group of people easily rather than everybody in the world being able to see it. Servers can choose to remain private so people on other servers can't see their posts, which is great for privacy.

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