@sleslie Yes. I came to Twitter very late (for me, as a tech adopter), like 2010, maybe out of a misplaced skepticism, I think. It's impossible for me not to feel hopeful while Whatever Open Social Platform Things are in this stage of messy creation and norming--all hinging on us being (t)here in numbers. As I said the other day, even if Mastodon blows up tonight, this will have been a great set of world-making though experiments/exercises.