Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (@[email protected])
universeodon.com
There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se. The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too. 🧵 CC: @[email protected]

An explanation of two problems inherent to social media platforms from @[email protected]

scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing’s true on the social side, too.

difference in perspective between the governance parties and the end users

Explanation starts

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