The thing with an open infrastructure is that people can build services on top of basic services. This is a lot like the way TweetDeck and other applications were built on top of Twitter, but in the case of Mastodon and similar services, the basic services are distributed and open source, which means there's no way an Elon Musk can buy the entire thing and pull the rug out from under all the add-on services. In the Fediverse ecosystem, which si where Mastodon is located, we're seeing a naissance of these add-on services (it feels like 2007-2010 did fo social networks, before the owners clamped down). This is how to build a service infrastructure. Learning technology developers take note. Other possibly interesting things (so the site says): RSSGizmos, SearchGizmos, ResearchBuzz, Nosy Raleigh.
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