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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • It’s not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.

    It will be soon, and I agree but I think we will all be shocked how quickly the fediverse grows lots of niche communities. I don’t think the numbers will grow as fast as the amount of niche content either, because I think this will be a product of highly motivated people who come here specifically to recreate those niche communities and contributing to fleshing them out far more than a similar sized community would be on a corporate social network.


  • I feel like this conversation is slipping into equating “makes fediverse grow faster” to “good”.

    Maybe most people need to have an initial experience where they get pushback for behaving the way they did somewhere else?

    That is of course a dangerous rationalization to apply, as it can be used for any kind of shitty treatment of people, but there is also a similar danger to assuming that whatever will bring people in the fastest is inherently good.




  • The way I see it - the early adopters set the tone of a place and new arrivals are more likely to adopt that approach. So it is important to be kind now, so people will be kind later.

    Even if a bunch of people flood in and “dilute” that culture, that will never erase the fact that if we make sure to be as nice as possible as early adopters of the fediverse, that any corruption of that initial culture will be remembered as such.

    The narrative of this place as being about being nicer, kinder (still very flawed) and more accepting will live on, no matter what, even if we fail to meet that ideal for periods of time.

    Personally though, I think it matters what version of people you invite in, so if as an early adopter I try to invite in the best versions of people (which includes actively trying to invite in the best version of me) because those best versions of people will turn around and invite in the best versions of other people.

    I don’t know why this isn’t considered an old adage at this point, but it is fun as fuck being part of a kindness snowball, it is empowering, heart warming and inspiring all at the same time. Plus the thing you help participate in creating just grows in power so much, you can’t help you did something real even if you were just a tiny tiny tiny tiny part of it.