Mastodon does remind me a bit of the web prior to web 2.0. While using it recently I recognized the same community-scent and tools-scent and then later, a simil

Mastodon does remind me a bit of the web prior to web 2.0. While using it recently I recognized the same community-scent and tools-scent and then later, a similar conceptual-outcomes scent. There is a lot of opportunity not just in the software but in its unfolding concept. If you had a tilde website in the late 90s or early 00s you might know what I mean here; you may be at someone's mercy for service quality but it's also your own stuff and people can find you and your simple content in simple ways. So it starts to get fun to have this kind of platform for your voice. And where there's fun, there will be a 2.0 involving additional widgets, this is a law of the universe. (I also feel like open microblogging never really got a fair shake, due to the emergence of walled-garden social networks around the same time. And Mastodon happens to be very good for open microblogging)