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- perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English11•10 months ago
Wowww, super important story for all lemmy users to read and learn from. I believe the fediverse is the solution to Ello’s self-inflicted problems.
Go support your local instance. Let’s see if we can keep this going, as a non-VC funded community this time.
- Retronautickz ( @retronautickz@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
I think part of the issue with Ello was that they sell themselves as non-corporative social media while maintaining two of the most important characteristics of corporative social media:
- Centralisation and lack of federation
- Being closed-source
The story would have gone completely different if they
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Had made it open-source allowing users to contribute to the project, both as devs and through donations.
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Added decentralisation and federation, allowing others to make their own Ello servers. This could have taken a lot of weight (financial and otherwise) from the developers/founders. Users cost money. Dividing the user base within different servers, pay by and moderated by different people means dividing the costs.
- heluecht ( @heluecht@pirati.ca ) 1•10 months ago
@alyaza I have to think of Bluesky, which is also a PBLLC and they took external money. We will see how this will develop.