I think it's super important that we realize that Mastodon isn't "the next Twitter / Tumblr / whatever". It's not there yet. I was on the ground floor when people were "migrating" to Google Plus, and that went so horribly because we all thought it was gonna kill Facebook tomorrow.
We won't kill *anything* unless we make this a place people want to come to by 1) keeping all oppressors out and 2) making good community / context / posts
> I think it's super important that we realize that Mastodon isn't "the next Twitter / Tumblr / whatever".
But really -- nothing is ever the next anything at all.
The whole "the next X" is a concept the record industry (among many many others) desperately tried to use to leverage what people like into getting them to try imitations.
Everything is an imitation of something else and a new creation, everything. There's no 'next' Twitter or Tumblr.
Masto will grow. ^_^ That's all.
@sydneyfalk @tim @ben_c You mean this isn't the next Usenet?
GASP
YOU'VE FOUND OUT THE SECRET!
*throws a canister of knockout gas at the floor and vanishes in the excess smoke it produces*
@artsyhonker @sydneyfalk @tim oh no this *is* the next Usenet, and every day is the last day before Eternal September