@eggfreckles Probably a few things... There's a little more friction here because of the blog-based architecture. App.net was easier to get started, but in hindsight the wrong solution. (As you know, I loved it.)
@eggfreckles I think ultimately people don't give a damn. Part of that is the “free” concept of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and the extremely low to no barrier to entry on those platforms.
@eggfreckles I think it’s multiple things. Partly it’s too rough around the edges. But mosty it’s just that no one wants the come here till everyone else is here. It’s the problem in starting a social network.
@eggfreckles It makes me slightly more inspired to build things that fit into it, because it is so rough, and because I get more control over what shape that takes. A lot of that could be January resolve, too.
@eggfreckles Sadly I've come to believe more and more it's the later, just not giving a damn. But, most people don't give a damn about a lot of things I think are important so maybe that's how it goes. 😐
@eggfreckles I miss online villages. I love the midphase of these things when I find interesting strangers but at some point eternal September smashes the signal to noise ratio. Stupid goldilocks desires. #enoughaphorisms
@adiabatic one thing that is yet to be seen is to what degree things become totally distributed. Right now it is not functionally that different from twitter. Manton could technically ban someone from the network. I don’t know how my feed is constructed. I think things will be a lot more interesting once the actual social network is open rather then just the content itself.
@adiabatic @rgigger Interesting discussion! The priority here is definitely decentralized content and better open web tools, not the social graph yet. Mastodon focuses on federation and less the blog and personal domain name aspects. Both progress, from different perspectives.
