Maybe it’s the balkanization of social that we actually want?

"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder."

louder for the people in the back

There’s also the other thing—

Even though Twitter had a ton of reach, it still fell short of full world engagement. Posting more than once on Twitter was never a normal thing. I don’t think anything has gotten close to fb in that regard

Maybe it’s the balkanization of social that we actually want?

I think it’s really hard to predict which one if any will “win”

There are different tribes on mastodon, nostr, here, gab, etc.