As a kid, I thought I had friends, but they weren't good enough friends that I felt comfortable inviting them over to my house or to my birthday party. In retrospect those weren't very strong #relationships.
Now I'm faced with wanting to get my friends to slightly inconvenience themselves for my sake by trying #mastodon, and again I'm discovering that many of my relationships aren't as strong as I was thinking.
(I'm maybe being a little melodramatic here, heh.)
@katerino I think we have instincts about social media that are adaptive for traditional walled-garden skinner-box platforms, claiming that (1) joining a new social media site is a major commitment of time and energy; (2) small/niche sites are basically worthless. Mastodon is _suprisingly_ good, and the surprise – the mismatch between expectation and reality – matters.
@katerino
At some point there are those who go down with the ship because they don't believe it's sinking and then there are those who jump overboard when they see something better. Facebook, much like AOL, is a slowly sinking ship. Eventually everyone comes around or they go down with the ship. In the meantime, there's the rest of us!