Post #2699347

@bittner@hachyderm.io I think you're right. It's the scale that kills things. But then, that's why I like Mastodon, because it can be run and is run at human scale (see Jerry helping out Krebs with the kimbot trolls). It's just that the human scale only works with enough folks willing to run human scale stuff, and users being willing to pay. I hope that this mindset shift means more folks who aren't tech nerds are looking into real alternatives. I just feel like, as a group, FOSS nerds don't make it easy for folks not in the in-group to get in. Who would run the local fishing group or textile arts Mastodon instance for example? I'm a nerd and even I don't want to run this stuff myself. A community with a low count of nerds able to do this is the one with the hardest journey. I'm really curious to see how that gap gets bridged! I hope it does at least.