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Written by arialdo on 2025-01-14 at 15:17

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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Written by Anthony Cowley on 2025-01-14 at 15:39

@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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Written by arialdo on 2025-01-14 at 15:45

@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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Written by arialdo on 2025-01-14 at 15:46

@acowley I mean, it's full of discussions about #Emacs and #Nix: enough to scare anyone.

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Written by Anthony Cowley on 2025-01-14 at 15:49

@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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