A 🧵 on what I want to call #CriticalMastodon. Just a personal view, but without the insight or dress sense of Jacob Bronowski.
I came in 2018, looked around and loved the idea. I love open-source. I love federation. I didn't review the protocol or code, but it seemed Gargron and the community had done something generally sensible and I expected the usual process of open-source natural selection would do its thing.
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@happysinger I had the same notion, although I was somewhat sceptical that it would take off, mostly because the alternatives at the time (birdsite and, to a lesser extent, tumblr and other self-hosted alts) seemed to *mostly* sane. How the world has changed.
