@davetroy I started twitter during the bmore uprising to find out wtf was happening. The thing I miss on here vs twitter is the lack of real time local news and information. Not sure if this will get better with more users, but I hope it does.

@davetroy I have been thinking over the last few years prompted more by climate change concerns, that we need to organize ourselves more at the local level, do all that we can at the local level and firm necessary alliances from there, which I guess is how we started. Perhaps we have learned the important lessons of greater cooperation so that we can be in smaller communities without being in antagonistic relationships with those communities around us. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

@davetroy Yeh, first time I made an instance, for me and a couple of friends, one of my friends created a Donald Trump account on it. So I have narrowed it down slightly since, basically family.

@davetroy The ethos does not rely on the infrastructure alone.

@davetroy I think we are just seeing the beginning of this platform. Evolution will take this to a much larger scale and hopefully with a less clunky interface. I’m ok with that to the extent I would like to see the best of Twitter replicated. At some point I expect some attempt to monetize this app. I haven’t given much thought to how it would happen but then again I participated in email groups in the ‘80s and that seemed cuttting edge then.

@davetroy that’s why we must turn off the screens and talk to each other.