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Stephen Downes

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Why has Mastodon survived despite the scepticism of early critics? This article makes a good case as to why those sceptics were wrong. Essentially, survival for Mastodon - an a distributed open source federated network supported by users - is very different from survival for a typical start-up, which has to grow fast and raise funding or die. It's also about quality of experience, not quantity of users, writes Peter O'Shaughnessy. "For people only worried about their "reach" then yes, Mastodon won't be as valuable. But most Mastodon users won't miss those kind of people from Twitter very much!"

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