I really appreciated this piece from Clive Thompson (@clive) about Mastodon's "antiviral" design.
https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51
It's not an unabashedly good thing to be anti-viral. It's not great for activists who are trying to change media agendas. I come away from Clive's piece increasingly convinced that we need a wide variety of different platforms, from the very broad to the very small, and tools that help us aggregate, filter and navigate those different networks.
Yeah, I think this is true!
Each of the social networks all serve slightly different rhetorical purposes
For activists looking to introduce issues to the mainstream, the trick with Twitter was that it's the place where mass media's attention was/is most focused (in a somewhat troubling and, at minimum, *lazy* fashion) ...
... and it's not clear what set of tools might replace that
