The wrecking ball has been taken to Twitter, and much in the same way that I have taken a leave from Facebook, I am now taking a leave from Twitter.
It pays off that I never depended on any commercial network. Xing, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, they have always been playgrounds. This circus has now moved to Mastodon, on the chaos.social instance. My address is @vowe@chaos.social and it resides at chaos.social/@vowe. If you do not intend to join Mastodon, my page also has a public RSS feed: chaos.social/@vowe.rss.
Volker, may I ask what happened to Ello?
Ello never achieved critical mass. It was a wonderful site, but it had to pivot into a niche, where I could not contribute anymore. I do not consider myself an artist.
An interesting article by Aral Balkan about why users with a lot of followers and interaction are very expensive, and how Mastodon/Fediverse is not designed for absolute decentralization. Using Stephen Fry’s move to join Mastodon as an example:
https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/
Nice Article.