@Aminorjourney @futurebird @Gurre @EU_Commission

Espechally once the #EconomiesOfScale that #GasStations have will bring #Methanol prices down and availability up.

Noone's gonna "fast-charge" for 30+ min unless they travel or rather commute so little they should not have demand for a car to begin with...

I enjoy reading what people learned, or what changed their minds on Mastodon. I'd like to see more of that 🤔

A #ThingILearnedToday :

Early #FreeMarket advocates like #AdamSmith did not foresee #EconomiesOfScale.

Their idea of free markets works as long as most employees eventually become self-employed. Economies of scale ruined that in a way. Large companies are much more efficient, so being self-employed will never pay off for most people.

[from Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government]

In this piece, I argue that #Mastodon will have to change if it were to rival #Twitter.

And I disagree that a single-user instance architecture like @aral suggests is the way to go. Though he makes an important point about the cost implications of hosting instances with popular users.

What we do need is a politics of social media architecture – and #regulation.

#politicaleconomy #techpolicy #economiesofscale #UX #codeislaw

https://leviathan.substack.com/p/mastodon-will-have-to-change-if-it?sd=pf

@uint8_t In the #Smallprint of the #SocialContract of #MassSociety it’s implicit that only #UseCases amenable to #EconomiesOfScale will enjoy proper support. It’s the true root cause of #ComputerSaysNo.

RT @matthewstoller@twitter.com

One reason #economiesofscale notion is problematic is that it's often a subterfuge. Podcasting *already scales* through open standards to hundreds of millions. Spotify just wants to privatize those standards using #economiesofscale rationalization. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will-spotify-ruin-podcasting

Suggestion for Mastodon (to prevent eventual gMastodon instance): cap instance size at 100 - 1,000 account by default. Make it a social contract for instances not to federate with instances greater than that limit.

Or, a few years from now, say hello to “gMastodon”. (See history of email and the Web for a lesson in the future.)

That said, we might already be on that path.

#economiesOfScale #networkEffects #powerDifferentials #ventureCapital

The VIAA deal enabled the hiring of professional system engineers to handle the sustainable digital preservation infrastructure and systems. 🤔

#SEAPAVAA22 #solveitwithscale #economiesofscale