<story><title>Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform</title><url>https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xj9</author><text>Why do we keep building centralized &amp;quot;decentralized&amp;quot; services to replace entrenched centralized providers? What hope of victory is there against the Twitters and Facebooks of the world? They already own that space! They aren&amp;#x27;t going to be disrupted by Yet Another Twitter Clone.&lt;p&gt;Disruption means doing something that your competitors are effectively incapable of doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gargron</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t a startup, it&amp;#x27;s an open-source project. Most likely the Twitters and Facebooks will win, but people should have a viable choice... Plus this is an incredibly fun project to be working on, to be quite honest.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform</title><url>https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xj9</author><text>Why do we keep building centralized &amp;quot;decentralized&amp;quot; services to replace entrenched centralized providers? What hope of victory is there against the Twitters and Facebooks of the world? They already own that space! They aren&amp;#x27;t going to be disrupted by Yet Another Twitter Clone.&lt;p&gt;Disruption means doing something that your competitors are effectively incapable of doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>Their USP, which Facebook and Twitter can never compete with, is self-hosting. Multiple companies could set up, some with ad-free paid options, others funded by advertising. And if you don&amp;#x27;t like those options, you can host it yourself for you and your family.&lt;p&gt;I think that&amp;#x27;s a worthy goal, though I&amp;#x27;m not convinced it we&amp;#x27;ll achieve it because of the amount of money the vested interests can throw at preventing it. But it remains a good idea, even if it never becomes mainstream.</text></comment>