Thoughts on Birdsite, Culture
So we've already seen an instance-wide search engine. There will be more of this shit.
It is important to recognize where the demand for these things come from. A whole bunch of people came over from Twitter, the big #numbers accounts. They were at the top of the food chain, and they see themselves as the same here. For them, nothing has changed.
They will push for anti-features that ensure they can game the platform and remain at the top of the tree.
Thoughts on Birdsite, Culture
How long before we see the first automated blocking tool that farms blocklists? How Long before feature requests turn up on Masto's GitHub to integrate things into the ActivityPub implementation?
Don't forget the amount of money floating around. People have deep pockets and they'll pay to get what they want.
