@cloudguy Is the author suggesting that the "virtual Town Square," a moniker we often ascribe to Twitter, is actually not a happy place where contented people congregate to talk about bicycles and eat sandwiches? Because if so, a) that's my kind of crowd, and b) I kinda agree with the author.
@HarkMahlberg @cloudguy@mastodon.terabyte-computing.com
There’s the virtual bike club, the virtual craft club, the virtual ham radio shack, the virtual culinary skills space, and so on, a space for everyone.
That idea of the global town square hasn’t really worked out so well, has it?
Even large IRL human conurbations are an aggregation of many smaller places, each with their own identity and public spaces.
To me, the fediverse seems to take the best of the IRL experience while allowing me to reach across the world.
