I'm going to keep this thread going if you don't mind. I'll use #CnM for Communities, Not Markets, so you can follow or mute.
The reason I've sat on CnM for so long (2+ years) is because it feels so enormous in scope. I can write for an entire Saturday and still not feel like I've "finished." You know the feeling lol.
But writing this thread is helping. Maybe in the end I'll have something coherent to publish to my blog www.fromjason.xyz
Mastodon is a community, and it's not due to its decentralized architecture.
Place Mastodon among its peers. What's the difference? It's member behavior.
Mastodon is free from the influence of governing algorithms.
On Mastodon, incentives for posting are intrinsic. There's no system to game, no master to please. Which means, no grindset gurus, no crypto bros. Just real people.
Surely, there are other considerations for building a community. But it starts with a rejection of the market. #CnM
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/fromjason/statuses/115817004397498465 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
