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I'm on masto regularly and the community is much more pleasant there (than say Twitter). A lot of users attribute that pleasantness to decentralization. I call

I'm on masto regularly and the community is much more pleasant there (than say Twitter). A lot of users attribute that pleasantness to decentralization. I call BS. It's because it's a tiny self-selected group that wants the opposite of what Twitter provides. You're absolutely right: once this tips, and people join because that's what you have to join to talk to people and not because they're looking for a real change, then it'll be unbearable. The best thing that can happen to fediverse is that it will continue to grow incrementally, so that at each step they can see the missing moderation tools and build them before it all blows up. Personally I think we'll look back on these massively open networks where everybody can reply to everybody as an anomaly.

athenot 8y ago
> Personally I think we'll look back on these massively open networks where everybody can reply to everybody as an anomaly. It's cyclical. - The internet and online communities (BBSes) started out decentralized. - Then came AOL / Compuserve / etc. Centralized platforms. - The web broke up those platforms and shuffled everything around. - Then the current Google / Facebook / Twitter megaplatforms arose and that's the state we're in. So it's logical that we're ready for a decentralized cycle but over time, users will forget why decentralization is good and another big platform will rise.