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God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/ “The reason the #Babel story matters is not that it happened once but that it happens over and over: We Babelize and de-Babelize. The #internet is an engine of both processes. Eventually, brands will find purchase in #Mastodon’s rocky soil and grow engagement. .. Everything will centralize again, and it will seem eternal, as if the tower could never fall. For now, let’s enjoy the scattering. “
“How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea.”
@stefanjohansson Wasn’t that a great quote! Though I would say that cyclists are actually a ripe market: we’re always buying gear. 
@auscandoc Thanks :) yes ”cyclism” is its own subculture… I really liked that Wired article, many great analogies about the current SoMe landscape!
@stefanjohansson Yes. Like this one. “But when I go back and read Genesis, I hear God saying: “My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
Though I do like to quote Dr Bruce Arroll when he says “Our brains haven’t evolved for thinking” (In the context of mental health”.