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1/5: #Mastodon founder #Rochko expressed through several interviews the opinion that there was no #fediculture or #socialconvention, but it was all fluctuating depending on who the users were, and the #server rules. I'd like to add some nuance to that: the #fedi features themselves are symptoms of a culture (#cw, filters, no quote #boost...), so the tech isn't agnostic.
2/5: #Mastodon features have created #fediculture coherence cross-#servers, and many #instances will uphold the #values they see in those features: self-awareness, respect, inclusivity, diversity. #Rochko was may be keen not to scare off #birdsite arrivals, who are importing their #twitter culture en masse on #Mastodon. The UK government would have qualified this #migration as 'an invasion'. Here's why:
3/5: The habit of #crossposting from #Twitter especially #RTs, the culture of #selfpromotion & constant posting of self publication #links is seen by many as "reinventing Twitter on someone else’s platform" & disregarding the local culture. Many existing #Mastodon users see this as an invasion from "Contiki tourists" rather than #refugees. This affects particularly accounts of #organisations (#NGOs, #corporates) and #media, whose servers got blocked in protest. Cue #journahost
4/5: #journahost, the #instance favoured by #journalists, got blocked by many #servers in frustration of this straight import culture from #birdsite & total disregard for the existing #fediculture (see list here: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=journa.host). Props to #investigative #journalism network @GIJN for not only reporting the story, but acknowledging there was a #fedi culture to start with.
5/5: So while I agree with #Rochko that #culture is dynamic & people-dependent, there are also large phenomena like #migration & #capitalistic #inequality that will create tensions on existing cultures. I just hope that we are not going to end up with a transposed #Twitter platform where #corporate culture erases local cultures.