As a #mefite, fascinated to watch people from the community find each other to seed our networks. Patterns like this make sense; it's wonderful to know that I can find others, and it also bodes poorly for the future network diversity of the Mastodon network.
Okay, time to get off mastodon and go back to actually writing my dissertation, which is about all of this 😂 #OneWeekMore
@natematias Right?! These things always appear right when I don't need distractions! :)
@natematias Yeah, it's a paradox. I'm both excited to share this space with internet people I like -- and a #mefite is basically the default model there for me -- and to break out of some of my existing social network territory.
The need to make an active, curatorial effort to fill in my follows with folks who *aren't* readily at hand speaks to why those reinforced networks happen; it's *easy* to do a follow train from the MeFi thread, harder to Go Find New Strange People.
@joshmillard @natematias I think the local/federated timeline views is a big help here in spotting potential new follows.
Early adopters are in the infosec, SV, and internet culture worlds, which are notoriously demographically skewed. I have great respect for those worlds, but but if those are the folks who accrue the earliest/greatest following & power, then we'll see many of the same old problems all over again.