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		prvc on April 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight There certainly is a role to be played by federated open-protocol communication in the future, but why limit your app to being a mere Twitter-clone? It will then always be worse than Twitter in terms of the quality of its network.

fluctor on April 28, 2022 [–]

There are a ton of different application types in the Fediverse. See https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/.

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