Clive ThompsonThe smaller scale of Mastodon is interesting
It puts me in mind of a 2010 column I wrote for Wired about "the virtue of obscurity": https://www.wired.com/2010/01/st-thompson-obscurity/
Back then, Twitter was still new. A "big" followership was like 4,000 people. A huuuuuge celebrity like Oprah had 1.5 million
I kept hearing from people in the middle of the pack, who slipped from "a few hundred mostly friends" to "10,000 strangers/randos"
They didn't always like it
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
When it comes to your social network, bigger is better. Or so we’re told. The more followers and friends you have, the more awesome and important you are. That’s why you see so much oohing and aahing over people with a million Twitter followers. But lately I’ve been thinking about the downside of having a […]
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