Mastodon, The Only Good Choice
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Tim Bray makes a case for Mastodon as the only viable long-term social media platform, drawing parallels to email's resilience through decentralized ownership. Key arguments include: migration portability preventing lock-in, higher quality interactions despite smaller follower counts, no algorithmic manipulation for engagement, support for explicit content via content warnings, distributed moderation with defederation as enforcement, and no profit motive. Bluesky is addressed directly and dismissed due to its $123M in VC funding and lack of a business model, which Bray argues will inevitably lead to enshittification or collapse. The post advocates switching now while Mastodon's software has matured significantly.
