[MichaelZuo]

Picking a ‘boss’ in a system where the average ‘employee’ has no credible way of assessing or evaluating them, or their superiors, and zero prospects of ever getting a face to face meeting with, is effectively no different to having the boss picked by an anonymous shareholder meeting in SF.

If all of the potential bosses have roughly the same degree of accessibility… which is the case for Mastodon for anything over a few hundred users.

[ThrowawayTestr]

What's stopping you from messaging server owners or stalking their profile to see they're ideologically compatible?

[throw16180339]

That's a lot more effort than using Discord and getting on with my life.

[paulryanrogers]

Compared to closed gardens like Discord and Xitter, Mastodon is a significant improvement.

[MichaelZuo]

But not in terms of the ‘choosing a boss’ aspect for the median user.