Many people claiming "mastodon is this... Or that". We won't know what mastodon is until people stop fucking talking about mastodon. The sooner #mastodon users start to talk about the world in which they live, the sooner it becomes useful. Until then it's just a thing that looks a little like twitter.
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@alan_butler this looks more like a fat guy ;-)
but I agree to the former..
@alan_butler I don't think there's any rush to make any particular social space "useful". If I go to a nice new bar, I might well spend a while talking about why I like it. Eventually the conversation moves on. For now, talking about what Mastodon is is a nice way to say hi to people - just like we're doing now.
@alan_butler first rule of mastodon...