Gabe RiveraAssorted thoughts on Mastodon and the Fediverse. (Thought I'd offer them up here for people to tell me I'm wrong before recycling them on T*itter):
👍 Some "communities" are rather well-represented here. Some unsurprising tech crowds present in large numbers: future-of-web types, people into open source and open standards, and industry-skeptic/social-justicey folks. The infosec crowd is fairly-well-represented here too. And as I said before, basically every notable blogger from the year 2005 is here!
👎 Startup/venture folks are not here in large numbers. (Yes, @hunterwalk and @mgsiegler are present!) Overall the chicken/egg problem is not cracked for these folks.
😂 Meanwhile, it's kinda funny how crypto people are entirely absent in the Fediverse, given their professed love of decentralization. (Perhaps they were not not so much into decentralization but rather recentralization of wealth around themselves!)
Leon Cowle@gaberivera @film_girl Crypto VCs have bored of it (now that everyone is realizing it was/is just a giant pyramid scheme and/or recentralization of wealth to them) and are now chasing the new & latest shiny money toy: AI!
Christina Warren@leoncowle @gaberivera which is frustrating b/c AI really is the next wave (imho) and not some fly-by-night fad.