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1. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 15:27:42 CET Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

   • Eugen
   @Gargron #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations. The challenge of growth for the #fediverse is going to be trying to spread users over more instances and keeping those instances smaller, instead of having most of them clump together in a few larger instances.
   
   At large enough scale, the larger instances will face exactly the same pressures and choices that Twitter faced. There won't be enough #Patreon funders to sustain that.
   • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 15:29:36 CET Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

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     " #Twitter became evil when its growth necessitated massive investments by venture finance type organizations."
     
     Or more specifically, when those VCs pushed them to adopt an ad-based model and then IPO.
   • Bob Mottram (bob)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 15:34:46 CET Bob Mottram

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     • Eugen
     @lnxw48a1 @gargron The challenge for fediverse growth is really more about sustainable admining. So anything which makes the job of the instance admin simpler will help, including things like having a recommended way to cover any hosting costs.
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