The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.
I believe that the ultimate wide spread adoption of Mastodon is important to democracy and the planet. I think it is so important that Mastodon must continue to rapidly evolved and create adoption and navigation that is more familiar and more easily understood by the bird site masses. It is not enough to just continue to explain that they are dumb and it is not that complicated. There may be some short term compromises, but worth it.