without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances, it really is a massive hindrance to network effects and will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche
that posters cannot reach an audience beyond their own server. the point of a microblogging platform is to create and consume content, but who wants to publish to a platform that doesn’t have the largest potential reach? and if the best content creators aren’t on the platform, why would the consumers be?
Abishek_Muthian|2 years ago
Can you be more specific? Only thing I found missing was "Quote Posts" and almost everyone seems to agree that it was the right decision to make.
> will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche
And its not a good thing? "There's an instance for everything" is fast becoming an reality, Let those instances be small as its managed by volunteers;
There's no need for everything to grow into a democracy destroying scale, Especially Social Media platforms.
rewtraw|2 years ago