The open-source social network gained millions of new users following Twitter’s takeover. While some of its features could improve the quality of public discourse, disadvantaged communities might be excluded.
@poVoq@rysiek following the drama - it was the combination of newcomers to federation not understanding “make your own server with moderation that suits your community” as anything but “we can’t deal with this, go away and stop bothering us” and probably a huge sense of alienation - the blacktwitter memes, concerns, trending topics that make a community aren’t on “here”, and most individuals aren’t able to bring an entire social graph onto a new place.
@poVoq @rysiek following the drama - it was the combination of newcomers to federation not understanding “make your own server with moderation that suits your community” as anything but “we can’t deal with this, go away and stop bothering us” and probably a huge sense of alienation - the blacktwitter memes, concerns, trending topics that make a community aren’t on “here”, and most individuals aren’t able to bring an entire social graph onto a new place.