I think it's closer to the shared gzlines on the smaller IRC networks or Usenet's KillFiles that people used to promote group-think and group-ban people, someti

I think it's closer to the shared gzlines on the smaller IRC networks or Usenet's KillFiles that people used to promote group-think and group-ban people, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for deviating from group-think. I suspect Mastodon will become a medium sized bubble or silo as a result. I personally will just hang back and watch the show. Mastodon appears to be a continuation of the Twitter fallout and peeled some tribes off into their own medium sized bubble. It will be good for growth but I have no idea what the end result will look like. I believe the biggest threat to Mastodon is that it breaks up some of the control centralized governmental and corporate powers have to influence the way people think and feel a.k.a. winning the hearts and minds of the people. An interesting project might be to create some machine learning that tries to identify when Mastodon is being infiltrated by these entities.