Can Upstart Twitter-Clone Mastodon Create a Nazi-Free Space Online?
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/mastodon-doesnt-have-nazis-yet.html
"[T]here is also little doubt that Mastodon’s lack of Twitter-like toxicity is due to its small size. It’s not that hard to find 50,000 people online who aren’t Nazis, and are mostly pretty nice (not that Mastodon doesn’t have spats). So one question is: Can it maintain its peacefulness as it grows?"
Scale, and scale effects, are the /only/ thing that matters.
@dredmorbius i'm 100% sure that mastodon will also devolve into hate once enough users join the platform
@tristan Avoiding that becomes the only real question. I've been diving into the history of media (to the Greeks and before) over the past few months. It's been ... interesting.
Clay Shirky: "I study social media. Which means, to a first approximation, I watch poeple argue."
What happens when everybody can talk to everyone? They find more people they disagree with.
It's complicated.
