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Ep. 224: A World Without Twitter?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Mastodon Will Never Be Twitter

Twitter has a massive user base that includes many potentially interesting people with engaging things to say. Mastodon can't replicate Twitter's success because it doesn't have enough critical massive interesting people. The dynamics of Mastodon, there's an actual founder, Eugene Rochko,. They've made these decisions to try to cut down on virality. Most of the stuff you see is not that interesting.

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