I'd like to see one alternative to #Twitter emerge as the sort of comprehensive and diverse place that Twitter used to be. Mastodon is coming the closest. But all these new alternatives suggest that we'll never have one place again, and the online conversation will be as fractured as the national conversation. It's too bad.
To me it looks exactly the opposite - when a lot of different people come to the same place they meet a lot of limits and have to restrict themselves or there will be constant collisions with each other. Basically it is like trying to fit people of all cultures and ways of life into the same huge room and hope for harmony. This just won't happen.
Mastodon and the Fedi in general are great because you don't have to do that here. There is room for everyone and you are not forced to mingle with the rest. And this works pretty well because it preserves diversity yet allows connection.
Or any large social service for that matter.
To me it looks exactly the opposite - when a lot of different people come to the same place they meet a lot of limits and have to restrict themselves or there will be constant collisions with each other. Basically it is like trying to fit people of all cultures and ways of life into the same huge room and hope for harmony. This just won't happen.
Mastodon and the Fedi in general are great because you don't have to do that here. There is room for everyone and you are not forced to mingle with the rest. And this works pretty well because it preserves diversity yet allows connection.