[ccppurcell]

I don't get these posts. I've yet to hear someone developing federated social media whose goal is mass uptake. Mastodon is designed to avoid viral posts for instance. I use latex and vim to produce pdf documents. I wouldn't write a long post saying "I don't see this replacing ms office any time soon".

[andybak]

> I don't get these posts. I've yet to hear someone developing federated social media whose goal is mass uptake.

In which case it's being mis-sold. It will never replace the thing that people are claiming it will replace.

> Mastodon is designed to avoid viral posts

"viral posts" aren't inherently a bad thing. It's part and parcel of some of the good aspects of social media - the sense of having a collective conversation among a large group. Fragementation is fine up to a point (We're already fragmented between half a dozen large social networks) but I want people to find me easily if they are interested in what I'm posting.

[ccppurcell]

Who's claiming that?

And why do you want to be found easily, really? In case you get your 15 minutes? I think the goal is to build community. Large numbers and reach are actually not so important.

[andybak]

> In case you get your 15 minutes?

Cheap.