The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.
@Gargron eh, I disagree. I think we will always devolve to this problem and that's okay. We have to be willing not to be centralized around a single platform or a single standard, and ready to move as soon as the time comes. I think the age of tech that "just works" has made us a little too comfortable with relying on inherently unreliable systems.