Remember the "Animal Farm" effect

The whole premise of Animal Farm is a bunch of animals think humans suck, kick them out, and over the course of the book they become just as bad as the humans they replaced. It's about communism but you can also apply it to online communities.

I was on Digg at the start. I was on Reddit at the start. I jumped onto Maston right away. I used to use IRC and before that, Campfire. I was early on Metafilter. I used to be a product designer at Twitter and was an early Bluesky person. And one thing is always the same: we always flood to a new community like "Ok! Finally! Time to finally do it right!" and then later "Darn, I used to think it was cool, before it sold out."

The "let's do better!" energy is amazing. But we also need to know that of course every new platform will have controversy, unpopular tradeoffs made, etc etc etc. And as Digg makes those moves, it's not because the Digg team sucks. It's because this is how a network matures.