mykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 16, 2017

First the queers and furries build a space where they can be themselves.

Then the infosec folks find that it fits well with their values.

Then the communists flock to the first real alternative to capitalist monopoly on shortform burst communication.

Then the artists come to find new walls to paint and nobody to tell them no.

The intellectuals, the chroniclers, the priests and the prophets, singly and in droves.

Slowly, it builds. It's neat to build an oral history from inception. #mastodon

Show threadjmz🦀(CARCIFIED)Apr 17, 2017
@mykola in terms of oral history, I think the radical leftists & communists showed up way before infosec twitter, who still seem like newborn mastodon calves from my perspective. There was a lot of discourse (relative to crowd size :B) around Castro's death & funeral. Variations on 'Gay furry communist twitter' were the tagline for a bit.
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCApr 17, 2017
@paralithode @mykola Yes, I think that the infosec people were the third group. There were some complaints about the conversations moving in that direction when they showed up.
Show threadjmz🦀(CARCIFIED)Apr 17, 2017
@inmysocks @mykola and you know, reflecting on it, I think e.g @katebowles & @clhendricksbc & @ShorterPearson (who I hope won't mind me characterising them as intellectuals :) ) were around exploring for a good while before the 'infosec invasion', too.
Show threadmykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 17, 2017
@paralithode @inmysocks @katebowles @clhendricksbc @ShorterPearson so any historical narrative is necessarily reductive. There's also huge overlap between referenced groups. But I appreciate the clarifications!
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@mykola @paralithode @katebowles @clhendricksbc @ShorterPearson when the history of mastodon is written it will be a jumbled confusion of contradictions.
Apr 17, 2017 at 11:44amWeb
Show threadjmz🦀(CARCIFIED)Apr 17, 2017
@inmysocks @ShorterPearson @clhendricksbc @katebowles @mykola we can only hope!!
Show threadKateApr 17, 2017

@paralithode @mykola @clhendricksbc @ShorterPearson @inmysocks I'm seeing a lot of effort to nail the essence of mastodon following this sudden growth. To me it's like defining "Australia" (which also happens often) by caricaturing some Australians.

What I see here is constantly changing. The consistent element is effort. People are working at this.