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I don't think "Notes" is going to stay "good" till my birthday, which is 90 days from now. The only reason my Substack is as good as it is was the discovery that I could click on an offender's name and reduce them to their component electrons. That and making sure everyone understands that I operate on the One Strike Policy. Embarrass me that I have attracted a moron, and you're gone. It doesn't really take that much to get rid of them. Like everything else American, the idiots are 5% of the total population and 98% of the bullshit.

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Notes has the same problems as Twitter. I've been seeing more stuff coming from Mastodon these days. When Epic Games decides it wants Notes to be profitable, it has the same problem as Twitter, Facebook or any of the others. Mastodon doesn't seem to be about making the big bucks. I can easily see it becoming a sort of side benefit to being an alumnus, belonging to a group like the AARP or YMCA, or any number of other options. I'm betting that anyone with a decent site hosting service will be able to spin up their own instance pretty easily.

This is not to say that I am ever going to get a social media account.

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