I'm also in small online communities where people are well behaved and threads are high-value and on-topic. But these are side effects of being small, and are u

I'm also in small online communities where people are well behaved and threads are high-value and on-topic. But these are side effects of being small, and are unrelated to the tech involved. Mastodon seems high quality now only because "no one" is on it. It's currently self-selecting like minded people who are invested in making it work. Add a million people a day for a year and see what happens. No community survives the eternal September. The mistake is in thinking that the -tech interface- matters. It does not. The size, and quality, of the community directly dictates the size and quality of the content.