Every country on earth already has the staffing and infrastructure to self-host a mastadon server. This would be so much easier than trying to rebuild the technology from the ground up. if you see a post from a government run instance, you know it’s a gov official since mastadon can restrict registrations. Could literally be done in a weekend.
Mastodon is often mentioned as an alternative, but it has its own problems. In my opinion, the biggest one is that there is no way to sort your feed like you can on Lemmy. A chronological timeline will always lead to quantity being prioritized over quality. That’s why newer users in particular only see boring stuff. If you bring this up, you’re guaranteed to get some Madison fan saying that Mastodon doesn’t want to be like Twitter, and especially doesn’t want to have an algorithmic feed. But then it’s not and cannot be an alternative.
There’s a recurring problem where the people who make decisions aren’t the people who should make decisions. And many of the people who should be making decisions are too bogged down to deal with everything.
Every country on earth already has the staffing and infrastructure to self-host a mastadon server. This would be so much easier than trying to rebuild the technology from the ground up. if you see a post from a government run instance, you know it’s a gov official since mastadon can restrict registrations. Could literally be done in a weekend.
W is a Bluesky instance anyway.
https://darnell.tv/2026/01/22/bluesky-w-social/
Mastodon is often mentioned as an alternative, but it has its own problems. In my opinion, the biggest one is that there is no way to sort your feed like you can on Lemmy. A chronological timeline will always lead to quantity being prioritized over quality. That’s why newer users in particular only see boring stuff. If you bring this up, you’re guaranteed to get some Madison fan saying that Mastodon doesn’t want to be like Twitter, and especially doesn’t want to have an algorithmic feed. But then it’s not and cannot be an alternative.
No reason why a fork couldn’t do that though. Why build a whole new platform? Or why not use ActivityPub?
There’s a recurring problem where the people who make decisions aren’t the people who should make decisions. And many of the people who should be making decisions are too bogged down to deal with everything.