Adam Elkus

I think Motherbaord and other coverage of this site sets up bad expectations of "Twitter without bad people." Social networks have bad people and friction. Dealing with them is an difficult and often inherently unsatisfying process.

Real issue is simply Mastodon's governance.

Apr 4, 2017 at 8:32pmWeb
Show threadAdam ElkusApr 4, 2017
I was on Twitter in 2007. Early Twitter was completely different. Everything starts off new and full of promise. The glow fades. Its in how networks manage maturation that is important.
Show threadbu††m▲ncerApr 4, 2017

@aelkus it seems the governance problem is solved, in part, by the federated structure of the platform. If you don't like the community, you can always join a better-managed instance with values that more closely align with your own.

Mastodon's model seems superior to birdsite's at the outset, but I'm curious to see where we end up.

Show threadAdam ElkusApr 5, 2017
@mitchell Yeah, I agree that at least it gives users freedom to be able to solve problems that instance owner can't