# Home invasion

<https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/>

- Host: [hughrundle.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/hughrundle.net/)
- Saved: November 10, 2022 (2022-11-11T03:41:13Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/58f10e6e52b4/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/58f10e6e52b4.json

## What Jamie wrote

Since Musk took ownership of Twitter and started his random act of the day strategy, we've seen a massive number of people jumping into [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org). Mastadon has been around for a long time, and uses a federation of thousands of servers, each with their own admin and policies, to then federate a Twitter-like experience. It is sort of like Twitter, but it is also very much NOT Twitter. This article highlights the cultural collisions happening as these Twitter refugees come tumbling into Mastadon and bring an entirely different set of expectation and culture into the Fediverse.

I can relate. I was a very active (too active?) IRC user in the 90's when the only way to get on IRC was to get the tarball and compile your own copy on a Unix machine. It was delightful, in part because the technical bar limited those that could get in, and it had a specific culture as a result. Then people started to create Windows and Mac IRC clients. All of a sudden anybody could join IRC. Everything changed… Mastodon is going through that now. 

**Software is people. And people are culture. Thus, software is culture.**

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT233: Weekly Thing #233 / Versepad, "Just", Mastadon](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/233/), Featured

## Mentions

- [Giving social networking back to you - The Mastodon Project](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cabcb53ed2b2/) (joinmastodon.org, October 23, 2017)

## Same host

- [You should get a blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/72bfb1105f9b/) (hughrundle.net, January 22, 2025)

## Saved the same week

- [Bright Health Group to Lay Off 99 Employees | Twin Cities Business](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/88fe56238739/) (tcbmag.com, November 10, 2022)
- [Just Don’t](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b473f7790e92/) (tbray.org, November 10, 2022)
- [Your Calendar = Your Priorities](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/34866545ff9e/) (cutlefish.substack.com, November 10, 2022)
- [What to blog about](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bde4b4669c29/) (simonwillison.net, November 10, 2022)
- [Minneapolis tech firm Code42 lays off 15% of workforce](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c2e887faaf21/) (startribune.com, November 10, 2022)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/