[howinteresting]

At an incredibly practical level, bootstrapping a new ecosystem in closed beta that isn't linked to the fediverse has been really great at attracting posters from Twitter who find the original fediverse too stale and curmudgeonly.

[sleepybrett]

Just like twitter before it, and every other social network, they change in tone over time. Sure right now I guess you could argue that the fediverse is stuffy, though not in my little corner apparently. But that won't stay true. Every person that joins changes the network. Sure some servers will ban other servers for any number of reasons and it will probably fragment. Who cares it will all come out in the wash.