Listening to nerds complain about Mastodon is a lesson in why they don’t want to be forced to trust anyone other than big corporations.
“How could instances possibly moderate content?!” I don’t know, the same way it worked before Twitter? Let’s stop pretending there is one true way of running a social network that’ll work perfectly forever.
“Oh boy it’s gonna be hard for Mastodon, who knows if it’ll work!”
LOL have you ever considered talking to people who’ve been using it for years?
The entire existence of non-commercial social network is bringing out the worst impulses in tech commentators who know no history.
They don’t want to know how to build and live in non-commercial online communities. They have no idea what that’d look like and assume they’d fall apart in an instant. They’d rather mock than learn.
It’s desperately sad.
Adrian Hon
Coach Pāṇini ®