Home invasion
www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion
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. 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.