@amoroso @Kroc When I was on mastodon.social I got so much HOA abuse from randos scanning the local timeline looking to pick fights*. I moved to oldbytes.space and that immediately stopped. And the local time was _interesting_, filled with people's projects, history, and just neat stuff they were interested in. You could actually make friends on the local feed, not just attract new random enemies.

Scale brings efficiencies as well as new problems. If you're the one that has to deal with the problems, maybe unbounded growth shouldn't be a goal, rather reaching a balance where you enjoy the advantages without dealing with a lot of BS.

(*) To be clear, it paled in comparison to what most non-white, non-presenting-as-male people got/get on Mastodon. Still, the local timeline on msstodon.social was the main source of abuse.