The technology behind mastodon is all well and good. In practice, the instances have a lot of sysop drama that results in a very poorly federated network. Hav

The technology behind mastodon is all well and good. In practice, the instances have a lot of sysop drama that results in a very poorly federated network. Having a model like Usenet, where perhaps you could have some groups federated among a few instances, others that are global, and still others that are purely local, would likely improve upon the situation as it currently is. Basically, everything social on the Internet is trying to find its way back to Usenet, which was the high point of electronic socialization.