@TQ I don't know… it feels a lot like early-days-app.net to me — that's where that thought came from. It's latter-days-app.net that had the problems, though, so who knows? Also app.net was a commercial operation, which makes all the difference in the world. In theory, twenty years down the line mastodon could be 200 old people spread over 150 instances, constantly ranting how it's so much nicer than facetwitter, and that would be fine with me. app.net couldn't do that, because money

@Ada Good thoughts. Thanks!

@TQ also, if I didn't think this place might go somewhere I wouldn't be here. I hope it does. As you might've guessed, app.bet still hurts, though, so I'm not ready to get all excited.

@Ada Yes... I have also seen "alternatives" to twitter and facebook come and go. But the concept of #Mastodon is so different, I can't help it but think this finally might be it.

@TQ interesting. What about mastodon is it that makes you think that?

@Ada The more granular security and privacy settings for once, the option to register on a server with a moderation policy fitting to one's needs. This is absolute key in my eyes.

@TQ huh, I thought diaspora (which I skipped) had that? Either way, it's certainly a nice concept (esp coming from twitter et al). It seems to turn people off, too, because they feel like they need to pick the "right" instance. That's what I gather from my twitter timeline, anyway, and it's certainly a thing that delayed my signing up

@Ada Yeah. I read this a lot, too, that's why I wrote an article about it (in German).
Diaspora felt seriously buggy and lacked inspiration throughout. Also: Who needs another Facebook? The one we got right now is superfluous.