my sincerest wish for the discourse between bluesky, fedi, threads, and the husk of twitter, is this: i want people to realize that no single place will be The Universal Social Network.

twitter's whole deal was that it felt like where all the Important People were, and there were enough people with power there that it functionally was. but different social networks always ended up holding different demographics doing different things.

my pet theory is that federated social media - with defederation as easy as federation, and many allowlists - allows for a healthier behavior where multiple cliques and subgraphs of the social network exist and can interchange at their edges, and maybe that's good. i dno't know though

fundamentally all social networks will inevitably face the same problem by which facebook was brung low: people don't want to share a social context with their parents.

@shoofle i kinda miss google+ circles