The author is very quick to call Eternal September. It is entirely possible that a few months from now this will have turned out to be a flash in the pan. More

The author is very quick to call Eternal September. It is entirely possible that a few months from now this will have turned out to be a flash in the pan. More broadly though, I thought the main USP of Mastodon was that, if you don't like the toxic behaviour of a group of users, you don't have to endure it? Why then would this influx be an issue for anyone? The post also seems very dramatic, bordering on hysterical, in the way it describes how "upsetting" it is that other people are joining Mastodon and the "grief" that has apparently struck the extant community there. Which, ironically, strikes me as very "Twitter" behaviour.