@liroyleshed It'll be really interesting to see how that evolves.

Right now, I think (even with 10 million users) it's still in the "sparse conection / few users" phase. Twitter has 20 times that many users in 2022 (though I think the real factor of Twitter's fucktastrophe is density of connection network, not just DAU).

As the density of the connection forest grows, it'll be interesting to see whether the Mastodon ecosystem collapses into the same human-driven anti-patterns we saw on Twitter or a combination of the weaker ability to mash together highly-engaged users (due to a lack of centralized knowledge of use) and the self-regulation tools that are part of the protocol prevent that pattern.