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!)
Darren@gaberivera They're all over on Nostr, where all they can talk about is Nostr.
@darrsil I think I'll check in on Nostr once a month or so as the concept is appealing, but right not it's a big No(str), for reasons you alluded to!
@gaberivera It's a lot of people saying it's the future, but in the end it's all crypto-bros bragging about their sats, or whatever else.
There's very little to no discussion on it outside of anything crypto related.
Until they start talking about other topics it will never be able to stand on its own.
Not to mention how hard it is to get it set up - if people thought Mastodon was difficult, forget about Nostr.