I am not believing that the AT protocol really changes anything. I mean for a lot of people “It lives in the open social graph” sounds about the same as “shouting into a void.”

Mastodon has been growing on me over time, some of it is that I’ve learned to accept the things I don’t like about it, some of it is that I have a good friend graph, but a lot of it is that the complexity scares away a lot of the “muggles” and holds off the Eternal September. That is, it is so bad that it is good; so certain kinds of subcultures really thrive.

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