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RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116584530249703838

The open nature of fediverse platforms should be more celebrated.

Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and many more platforms closed off API access, and shut out 3rd party developers to monetize every available surface.

Meanwhile, the fediverse is thriving with app developers creating experiences outside of official apps, and everyone loves that.

That is freedom.

We can't take it for granted.

❤️

All of those platforms have a serious brain drain problem.

Nobody wants to be the minority who is trying to have interesting conversations in a space full of spam and self-promotion. So people will quit those places and come here - but the only people who will quit here to go to those places are people who want a larger audience they can spam and promote to...

And that problem is endemic to their design, no way to solve it. AI slop makes the situation for them even worse.