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When Elon was losing class action lawsuits for his blatant, egregious, and widespread racism against Black people, and Black folk were decrying his Alt-right antics and the harm that they cause, everyone was fine. Tesla drivers weren't all the devil. People still cheered SpaceX launches.

Now Elon's Alt-Right antics have come for a much wider circle. Now everyone that stays on Twitter is the devil, and an irredeemably bad person? 🙂🙃

This one-way solidarity ain't it.

Telling people to leave Twitter is silly anyway. The math ain't mathing for Elon. He may be losing hundreds of millions a month. Advertisers ain't coming back. The Eng and policy teams are at unsustainably low levels. This doesn't end well.

But I'll repeat what I said in my 1st few months on Mastodon: if you want communities to move over to Mastodon, make Mastodon better for those communities. Don't just yell "Elon is bad!" Many of the people you're telling, knew he was bad way before you did.

If a person says they want to see Mastodon scale to support 100 million users, a lot of Mastodon users will jump on that person's neck. 🤷🏿‍♂️ They'll be accused of having "VC brain", or being obsessed with hyper growth.

It's not about hyper growth for growth's sake. If you truly believe that Twitter is bad(tm) and Mastodon is good(tm), and that people should leave Twitter, then where exactly do you think those people should go? There's hundreds of millions of them.

If Twitter is sinking like the Titanic, then Mastodon community servers are the lifeboats. And there are not enough lifeboats. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Don't just call people still on the Titanic foolish as you row away. Make more lifeboats, and make them easier to climb into! 👍🏿

@mekkaokereke

I do like the idea and want to help people move.

But it seems like 100,000,000 is a lot of people. That's ~10% of the 1,300,000,000 Twitter accounts.

Good moderation is supposed to be impossible over 1000 people, I read.

So we'd need about 10,000 new servers. Or 1,000 ~10k people servers. A thousand mastodon social servers. A lot of moderation and new moderators.

It would change the feel of the place for sure and timescale feels important too.

mekka okereke :verified:

@Homebrewandhacking There are ~6.7 million active Discord servers. There are ~2.8 million subreddits. So even 100K Mastodon community servers doesn't seem that high.

The big difference is that today, it's much easier to set up a Discord server or a subreddit than a Mastodon community server, but that gap is closing.

@mekkaokereke @Homebrewandhacking The gap is closing indeed when it comes to the technical side. Even better, a gap is growing in governance structures between fediverse servers and Discord/reddit/whatever platforms. What you're doing with Hachyderm/Nivenly is a great example, but others (such as Evan Promodou) are also working on coop structures to run a server.

There will be growing pains for sure with so much extra onboarding, but the potential is also so much bigger

@fediversereport @mekkaokereke My initial idea for my own instance was to make it a coop of some sorts. but that was too complicated in one go. So I just decided to run a micro-instance with me as the sole Benevolent Dictator.
But I am keeping a keen eye on developments with coops running servers to see how it is done elsewhere, and what I can learn from it. Because that is, still, the ultimate goal.