I've been thinking a lot about how different the culture is at mastodon than either twitter or facebook. It reminds me in many ways of old chatroom culture (minus the sex.. at least so far... can imagine a CYBER instance doing very well!)
A nice thing right now is there isn't so much of a sense of popular people yet, although some folks are bringing their popularity as they come over from twitter. Twitter popularity is very stressful, like if every time I went to a party, Keanu Reeves and Noam Chomsky were chatting in the corner. I feel intimidated and very dull by comparison. I wonder if Mastodon will be able to maintain this sense of, "Hi stranger, let's get to know each other!" as more people join and establish their personas.
@Latkes one thing twitter teach us is that trending people are not necessarily smarter or interesting than the others ;)
@Latkes I'm trying to get people on board with removing follower counts here. :wink: