Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead -- as a Mastodon instance, it seems. The company announced last month that
  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    At first I thought this was about the Pebble smart watch from 2012. Pretty confused how that becomes a Mastadon instance.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I happened to notice an ex-Pebble user in my feed asking for Mastodon help, a couple weeks back. Had never heard of it, but I did some digging, found there was a whole group of them wandering around lost and confused, so reached out and welcomed them and offered help. Honestly they’re very nice people, it seems like Pebble’s whole “thing” was a focus on people being cool to each other so attracted that certain sort of user.

    Proud to say I was nominated first post-Pebble member of Pebble club 😎

  • naonintendois@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    How would you make money as a mastodon instance? Pay to be a member? I don’t see the incentive for the average user to pay when it’s so easy to join a free instance (I’m considering the average person doesn’t know how to host their own).

    • maddy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You could probably trust that an instance you’re paying for will be more stable/less likely to randomly shut down.

  • loke@fedia.io
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    11 months ago

    I had an account there. I never used, but I posted a few times just to see what it looked like.

    The UI wasn’t bad, and if they have any resources left they should repurpose that UI on top of Mastodon.

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Tried to take on twitter? So they basically just made a bunch of elon shitposts? It seems vey easy to beat twitter at virtually anything