blaine"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.
Michael 
@blaine maybe not, but I’m not looking forward to repeatedly explaining to friends and family why they can’t see their favourite celebrity’s toots any more.
Scott JensonBut that's exactly the difference in a nutshell. Centralized social networks naturally gravitate towards massive celebrity accounts. Federated servers tend to gravitate towards communities. It *is* smaller, by design. I have 1/25th the followers I had on Twitter yet the engagement is far higher (and much better) so from my point of view, it's not a loss)
@scottjenson @blaine Hmm. I’m not sure I’d totally agree. Certainly I’d say that if a platform was built and populated primarily by people who considered themselves marginalised they might emphasise affinity groups in the way they organise it. But when my family members join? They’re just going to join a general or place-based instance. They’ll then look for friends and family and their preferred big accounts in news, entertainment, sports etc.
@mykd @blaine That's perfectly fine, but what they want, is by definition a centralized platform with all of humanity on it (and all the risks that come with that kind of power)
But there is a middle ground. All of your family members can email to each other. Of course this is NOT the same, it's a compromise. If you each join whatever server works for you, you can STILL find each other and see each others content.
@scottjenson @blaine they want something that *presents itself* as a single platform, with consistency and reliability and openness. They don’t care about the implementation unless it gets in their way.
If they find that their instance is too opinionated about what they can see or say, they’ll moan about it and when they understand why, they’ll move to somewhere else.
If they find that their instance is too opinionated about what they can see or say, they’ll moan about it and when they understand why, they’ll move to somewhere else.
dekks herton 
@dekkzz78 @scottjenson @blaine
A million people have joined Mastodon in the last two weeks. Eternal September is a warning to you, not to them.
@mykd @scottjenson @blaine in your opinion, we'll see how many stick it out if they are as attention span limited as you think. At it's core #Mastodon isn't twitter, if they really want that someone else will build it.
@dekkzz78 @scottjenson @blaine
I never mentioned attention spans.
Mastodon is pretty close to Twitter of say ten years ago. That was good enough to keep people engaged once they joined.
"They’re just going to join a general or place-based instance. They’ll then look for friends and family and their preferred big accounts in news, entertainment, sports etc."
Twitterati need to do at bit of research to get the best of the #Fediverse. The above quote suggest your saying if it's not in their face they wont hang around.