There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se.
The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.
@siderea Please copy this brilliant thread to a blog post or article somewhere so it's easier to link back to later. It is too good to get lost to the backscroll ether.
@Crell That is the plan! Maybe it'll be up by tomorrow? I'll try to get back to you with a link when I do.
@siderea @Crell did you see this? Already making waves in the Italian community. https://mastodon.social/@fedifaschifo/111488849240369217
PS: translator's nickname/handle means "the fediverse sux," literally
@mapto No apology necessary! I can usually sort out the big words from English cognates and my very rusty Latin, also I am exercising the hell out of Google translate.
@Crell