".@peterktodd never followed me on Twitter, but now that I'm on Bitcoin Mastodon I guess that I've become cooler." @vladcostea 😁

Though seriously, it's interesting how the lack of AI will change following patterns. On Twitter lots of people will end up in your feed due to The Algorithm, reducing incentives to actually follow.

@pete I think we're also dealing with the issue of abundance vs scarcity. When your feed is already oversaturated and you get all the views that interest you, you'll think twice before following someone new.

But when the platform is rather small and it's just taking off, it's likely that everyone will follow the newcomers just to establish the community. Soon there's going to be plenty of time for fighting and blocking 😂

@vladcostea That's a good point too.

Speaking of, I think we'll need to get some arguments going to actually get Mastodon off the ground. It's a bit of a dark pattern, but endless debate is what gets a lot of people hooked on Twitter. Also, watching others endlessly debate.

I am noticing Mastodon is decent at getting other communities visibility. At least with the client I'm using.

@pete @vladcostea I’m using tootle. What are you using?

@SatsLife @vladcostea Tusky as the client. Stock Mastodon to host the instance.

@pete @SatsLife Feeling like a newb here, I'm just using the bitcoinhackers.org URL in my web browser.

@vladcostea @SatsLife hey, whatever works! Still better than Twitter.

@vladcostea @SatsLife if I makes you feel any better, my mastodon instance was installed with a point-n-click script on Digital Ocean.

Though it is running from their Toronto data center. 🇨🇦🥌🍁