• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.

    Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.

    I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.

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        2 months ago

        I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.

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      2 months ago

      I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI.

      Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.

      What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that’s basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn’t have been expensive.

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        2 months ago

        They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.