Some twitter v. Mastodon tips for all of the lovely new tooters:
When you like a tweet on twitter, a swarm of AIs spin into action, analysing every aspect of the tweet and trying so desperately to find the matching tweet to show you next that will keep you scrolling, lest their masters decommission them in favor of a new version.
When you fave a toot on Mastodon, there aren't any AIs; you just made another human being across the world feel nice.
Deleted my previous post because inaccuracy. Better version: People are getting here by word of mouth, which means they will go to the instance they are told about. This will cause a lot of people to go to the same place. That being the case, would it not be better to put more emphasis on the possibility of choice in the intro? A brief reference and a fine-print link are very easily overlooked. @bcrypt @Gargron
hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
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