I'm doing a talk next week on Open Learning in the Fediverse so you might think my response would be unambiguously affirmative, but it isn't really. I mean, it shouldn't be just the 'same old thing' again. Why would we just reproduce the Twitter experience? My own experience with Mastodon was of being able to find a relatively small community I could chat with without an inbox flooded with commercial messages and algorithmic selections, and where people who follow me can actually see the messages I post. But if like Helen Blunden you've found a different quiet place, why move? The advantage of Mastodon, and the fediverse generally, as I see it, is that we're not limited to one place or one application any more. We have our blogs, and our messaging apps, and our photo sites, and whatever - we decide what we want and need - and they can all interact with each other - or not, if that's what we choose.
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