Mastodon is an incredibly rare opportunity for open-source, non-profit, advertising-free, decentralised software to be a real contender in a category – and, if it continues to grow, even to pull many other social networks into being part of (or interoperable with) the fediverse.

It's strange to me that this isn't mentioned more in the endless opinions about features, onboarding, UX, "vibes" etc.

@tomw @davew I agree with almost everything you say, except that vibes and onboarding aren’t trivial, - especially to #ISupportBlackMastodon & #LGBTQ who play such a significant part of Twitter and Mastodon. The fact it's gets (some) discussion isn't a problem, it's a feature - one that I hope thrives.

[runs for cover]

@blabberlicious @davew Not what I meant by "vibes", I was thinking of the idea that it's full of scolds, and all that.
@tomw fair play, my friend.