Decided to join mastodon, but pessimistic about it longer term: https://www.jefftk.com/p/thinking-about-mastodon
Social networks are normally very sticky—you want to be wherever the people you want to interact with are—so it's hard for alternatives to succeed. With the upheaval…
@jefftk your concern about spam is ironic, because the primary way we solved email spam was to move a huge amount of the email traffic to a handful of centralized hosts. (Gmail and exchange.)
a Schelling point for those who seek one
