THIS! (quoting @gaditb)
"Mastodon aims more at finding a small community to fit in -- you're "on Mastodon/The Fediverse", yes, but you're SOMEWHERE there, not in the meaningless ether of "try searching for things and following people randomly, maybe" in... basically all other social networks.
You have neighbors and a neighborhood, which again -- communities, and communication."
@mayel @gaditb this to me is the key element that is allowing us to take on the big platforms' #NetworkEffect where previous attempts have failed. A score or so of active co-op geeks on #socialcoop generates enough Quality Content™️ to keep me coming back in a way I never did on #Diaspora or #Ello, and #federation means that primarily internally-focused content nonetheless helps build the broader #fediverse network effect
@mattcropp @mayel @gaditb
Well spotted. The federated conversation primes the pump for each additional instance.