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#eestimastodon

In all the years I've been in the fediverse, I've looked every now and then if there are any Estonian users out there. Usually to no avail. Now the immigration wave from twitter (which - looking at my timeline - is already about to end) sets something in motion.

This week mastodon even made it to estonian public broadcasting: @jakobrosin, @diana and @tramm talked about a newly founded Estonian mastodon instance, est.social. Interesting! However, there were things that felt immediately strange to me: users are expected to post in Estonian - something I almost never do. This is done intentionally to build an 'Estonian community'. For me, this commitment to geographical, language-based spaces is in contradiction to what attracts me to the internet in the first place.

The discussion also suffered from being very mastodon-focused, barely mentioning the many other platforms that make the fediverse.

But let's see what happens next.