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

"...women participated more actively when a more casual and collaborate atmosphere was encouraged, which also gave rise to simultaneous interaction between speakers." (Yuasa, Ikuko; 2010)

Hmm gee I wonder why that might be 

Things Mastodon and other OStatus & ActivityPub protocols will have to deal with eventually, as learned from email:

- How do you deal with spammers, especially those rapidly churning through domains/instances? Do your solutions make it harder for small/new legit instances to federate?
- What happens as instances diverge in formatting support? What are the graceful fallback points?
- How do you avoid phishing based on similar domain names? (Address books?)

Got more?