Sonya Mann ✅Both articles about Mastodon (Sarah's on Vice and Casey's on The Verge) are missing a ton of context about the Fediverse that came first, and the community schisms. From Casey's piece it would be easy to think that Mastodon was invented from whole cloth; it wasn't.
To be clear, there are good parts of both articles (especially Sarah's). They're just both incomplete. We need a full-length magazine feature to explain all of this, tbh.
MrMetlHed@sonya : But does it matter once the new users vastly outnumber the old users (assuming that happens?) I feel like then the history is dead and everything is remade anew. I bet today there are hundreds or thousands of new users based on those articles alone. Perhaps surpassing the existing user base already.
Social networks can evolve into being unrecognizable quickly
@MrMetlHed c'est la vie I suppose, there's no way to stop this cycle