Smaller instances don’t make moderation issues go away, but they do shift the context away from faceless corporations and contractors to individuals and their social relationships.

Dealing with people in their living rooms vs. in context of corporate interests is actually very different. People can behave better and the expectations of them can actually be higher. Let’s not lose sight of that or hurry to replicate the scale or failures of Twitter.

@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.