This article is fantastic, but I have a hard time understanding some of the complaints around community norms. My experience with Twitter-like services is that nobody badgers me — or indeed even notices that I exist — until I start getting followers. There’s no overarching community that I can detect, but instead many overlapping ones. So why the complaints about content policing and what-not? Doesn’t that entirely depend on who’s following you?

If someone told me to wrap my post in a CW, I’d just ignore them if it was an unreasonable request. What do I care what some rando on the public internet thinks?

I guess I take some issue with the idea that there’s any coherent Twitter culture or Mastodon culture past a certain size.