actually the thing about mastodon that keeps hitting me is that it's a return to the governance model of the internet of the 90s, which is the "local dictator", with a single admin or a small mod team who are the sole owners and operators of a site. and like, oh right, anybody who's only used, say, twitter and facebook and youtube and tumblr and myspace and so forth and so on would have had absolutely no exposure to, because all major social media platforms online for the past ten years or so have been huge corporate monoliths (or wannabe huge corporate monoliths). getting mad at brad on livejournal was a very different thing than getting mad at jack on twitter or david karp on tumblr, because lj was brad's site in a way that was very different from jack being CEO of twitter
@xax I keep feeling like this has the same DIY energy as a local BBS back then. It’s exciting to see it again after so much centralizing! Even if all the folks who hit the net after it got all corporate have trouble understanding why you can’t claim @JaneDoe across the entire fediverse.
And it is also super strange to be the one running the bbs instead of the one dialing in. I feel old.
@anthracite yeah, this really feels like a breath of fresh air after so long having all social interaction happen in big corporate silos!
and hey, _somebody's_ got to be the admins. you at least have the benefit of experience :p