It's like a Douglas Adams bit: "We need to unbundle Reddit." "I'm with you there." "It's a silo, and it's toxic." "Indeed." "Now, how do we do that?" "Sla

It's like a Douglas Adams bit: "We need to unbundle Reddit." "I'm with you there." "It's a silo, and it's toxic." "Indeed." "Now, how do we do that?" "Slap a better UI on Usenet and completely de-silo everything. I think we're calling it Mastodon now." "I got a great idea! Move everyone out! Out! Far out! Out to dozens of silos, each topic-specific!" "No. That doesn't solve the underlying problem." "Indeed! Move everyone out to a network. A network where users will be free to be siloed." "How is that any better?" "It's much better! It's ten silos instead of one! Surely ten individual platforms can't possibly all go bad." And then he went off to talk into his phone wearing a face mask and gloves.