Some times I wish #Mastodon was a planetary hit, and I am tempted to invite everybody I know to join.
I would them how peaceful, kind, tolerant, open minded and interesting people are here.
But on second thought, perhaps being such a little, nerd, alternative niche is the reason why Mastodon is so special. Maybe it's OK like it is.
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@arialdo I think it's kind of in a sweet spot right now, where there is no dearth of interesting posts to read and people to meet.
It is however a bit annoying to see people complain about corporate social media and see all its evils and just go on and join another one
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@crmsnbleyd Yep. Many have not realized yet that we vote with our wallet.
I do understand that some choices come with a toll: my e-shopping is not as smooth as before I decided to boycott Amazon; I was uneasy deleting my Twitter accounts; I am surely more isolated than I was before, without Facebook and Instagram.
But as the saying goes: the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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@arialdo My experience of it is that Mastodon is still a bit too small. While the whole world rushing in could indeed bring a lot of the negatives, I don't think the apparent barrier to entry for people to use Mastodon is a good system.
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@acowley Maybe if the barrier to entry is removed, now that Mastodon has already developed its culture (mostly leftist, nerdy, LGBTQ+ friendly), this new barrier would keep protecting it keeping uninterested people far.
Maybe the bots would win anyway.
There's still a lot of room for hope, being a federated universe.
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@acowley I mean, it's full of discussions about #Emacs and #Nix: enough to scare anyone.
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@arialdo And my hope is that if you don't have an algorithm optimizing for engagement skewing things, those self-organizing communities could continue even if elsewhere in the fediverse there were things you didn't care to spend time on.
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@arialdo The world doesn't need global "town squares" in my view. Its not how we have evolved to interact which is with a few hundred people at most.
Smaller communities focused on specific topics with people that take the time to understand each other when differences arise and accept them are better than the train crash that Farcebook and Tw@ter have created.
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@slackline @arialdo you had me at orgmode !
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