A: let's make mastodon bigger than twitter
B: let's make mastodon much nicer than twitter instead and maybe realize that it doesn't need to have millions of users to be "successful"
@tcql its a mistake to treat those as opposing things
One of the main things that drives people away from twitter is harassment, ie its not nice, if twitter was able to deal with this problem it could presumable be bigger.
Secondly mastodon is much larger than gnu social ever was, and why was it able to atract more people? i got the impression that a lot of people joined because it was presented as a nicer alternative to twitter, something that wasn't an option for gnu social.
there is an issue with how big individual instances can be before they are unmanageable, but that doesn't mean the mastodon network cant be big
@radicalgraffiti to be honest, i didn't really intend this to mean that they're mutually exclusive. i think it's *harder* to keep things nice at scale, but not impossible.
this was more of a response to a wave of new folks coming in and immediately being like "twitter is dead to me let's make mastodon bigger than twitter to shove it in their faces"
@tcql oh i haven't seen that