@howfar yeah… also, to some degree these conversations are probably necessary. I was just trying to pin down what makes me feel so pessimistic for this place, and i think it's because to me mastodon feels very early-days-app.net. And both the enthusiasm and the meta-conversations are what make it feel like that.

Anyway, I'm not trying to poo-poo mastodon or even meta-conversations. It's just an observation — I'm here because I hope it works out 🤷🏻‍♀️