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Eugen Rochko

Eugen Rochko

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  1. privacy

    Besides allowing Mastodon to fully and reliably exchange the data it currently needs to exchange, it also has a lot of potential for future developments in the area of distributed identities and end-to-end encryption.

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  2. 6 weeks earlier
  3. The implementation of a completely new underlying protocol in Mastodon is not easy.

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  4. The fight for an ethical, decentralized internet is not over.

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  5. privacycapitalism

    We need a couple more months like April to cement our position in the public perception, to nurture the idea that no, you don't have to just succumb to surveillance capitalism to hang out with friends and reach an audience.

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  6. 5 months earlier
  7. Smaller, tight-knit communities are less prone to harbouring toxic behaviour; you could think of it as moderation work of the entire network being spread somewhat* between countless administrators of independent but compatible communities, which makes it way more scalable than a single multi-million-user company with a small safety team.

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  8. Facebook isn't, and can never be, a platform where people have the power to build anything.

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  9. infrastructure

    A future where Facebook is the global social infrastructure, is a future with no refuge from advertising and number crunching.

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