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   Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁 (blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 13:59:29 JST Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁

   For folks bullish on Mastodon: this is a moment, as an incredible influx of users of varying levels of interest and sophistication arrives, to take community concerns and wants and needs seriously—to disentangle core commitments around decentralization and governance from unrigorous design decisions that make the user experience harder than it needs to be. A proprietary alternative will arise soon enough, and Mastodon needs to be good enough for regular people to use it if it is to be durable.

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     Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁 (blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 13:59:27 JST Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁

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     As a lot of folks are saying about Twitter, the most important part of a social network is its users. The people this platform welcomes (and doesn’t) will determine what it is.

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     Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁 (blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 13:59:28 JST Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁

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     Or, of course, it can return to what it was. But this is an actual Linux-on-the-desktop moment that doesn’t present itself often in the modern tech economy.

     whetstone and Yukari 丼Peerless☑️ repeated this.