One of many reasons I'm eager to see a migration to Mastodon.
Still, I have a lingering suspicion that Mastodon needs to do something decidedly different. Unique and new.
@andybroomfield you're pretty much the only one on my following feed.
I see what you mean about a more carefully managed community instance. My feeling when I check Mastodon is that it seems harder to join in the conversation– even more so than early Twitter– because there are a lot of in-group behaviors.
Prediction: Mastodon will likely outlast Twitter.
Historically, decentralized, open-source platforms and protocols with any adoption run forever, even if they rarely reach the popularity or cultural relevance of centralized platforms.
It seems likely to me that when Twitter eventually shuts down, people will still be running Mastodon instances.
Did you know Diaspora has 328 active nodes and 17k users? Hell, there are 3,652 active FidoNet nodes, and that started in 1984!
So... am I wrong?