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.
@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.
Adam Elkus
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