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.
Dorsey realised that #Black Twitter is the force powering huge chunk of the discourse on social media.
Topics are largely happening there, and spread to other corners in waves.
And #BlackTwitter is in large extent sailing on the winds that is #NigerianTwitter. The sharpest reactions, the wildest takes, the boldness, the passion, the audacity is something that's mined in #Lagos, in #ArewaTwitter, in #SE, in South South, in #South (not the same!!)
Tom Forsyth
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