BuzzFeed Editor in Chief, Ben Smith, mentions Mastodon as an example of a social network that "comes after the social media empires"
re: rise of Switter: "Perhaps the most striking lesson here was the technical ease of spinning a big, functional new social network up in just a few days"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation?utm_term=.lcQdKZJQ8#.cm5Y4q1Vx
@schlink Really impressed at how context-aware he is in writing this: "Can I write this whole article without selling you on blockchain, which has no obvious connection to this decentralization despite the frequent linkage of the words? I can."
Because every other article seems to bring that one out for no apparent reason other than the SEO value of the word blockchain.
