Mastodawn

Chris Peters Nov 28, 2022

Twitter became a thing in our college town around 2009. Back then, I could count everyone in my town who was on Twitter with my fingers and toes. It's interesting that one of the first things we did, beyond settling on our hashtag was a organizing an in-person tweetup at a coffee shop. It was such a great way to meet different people in your community.

I'm curious if Mastodon could be a neighborhood level social network. Not like Nextdoor, but owned and managed by a neighborhood co-op?

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Mark Gardner

@SWOnews Research #BulletinBoardSystems (#BBSes) of the 1980s, before the bigger ones started to metastasize into interconnected #FidoNet nodes paralleling the nascent #Internet. They often did exactly this kind of neighborhood social networking because the economics of using the wired telephone system meant any given #BBS was 99-100% used by people for whom it was a local phone call.