Tom ForsythNov 19, 2022

A reminder that Twitter was not made as you see it today. At the start it was literally an SMS frontend. It didn't have concepts like threads, DMs, groups, privacy (ha!), blocking, muting or any of that crap. ALL THAT GREW ORGANICALLY - at first just as conventions, later adopted.

We will figure out how to use Mastodon. And some of those ways will be adopted officially (whatever that means!). This is our place. We'll shape it. Give it time.

Show threadStone Bear Nov 19, 2022

@TomF @solcita

This is a much bigger place than it looks like, because of its federated nature. It had its own culture long before we were here. I for one am trying not to colonize and impose my own culture, but harmonise with and respect the people who worked their butts off to build this, and who are doubling down to keep it from collapsing.

Show threadSunnie
@stonebear @TomF sure, but I think the underlying point remains for those who don't remember what the birdsite was like earlier either--things aren't what you expect because they are going to grow and change as more people arrive. It's inevitable, even as we try to respect the existing culture.
Nov 19, 2022 at 5:54amWeb
Show threadStone Bear Nov 19, 2022

@solcita @TomF

True dat. Perhaps even more so; with the platform being open source, it's relatively easy for anyone with the aptitude and cycles to tear into it and add features. The cathedral may be all pretty and easy to just walk into, but the bazaar wins over the long haul nine times out of ten. (looking at my desktop: Chrome, Firefox, Emacs, Signal, VLC, iTerm2, tools I use all day every day...)