@adamdavidson @chaykak well, the server you are on could belong to just a guy in a garage. It could be made up of free parts from craigslist. It could also be a massive server at a big corp. So it's like being allowed to walk into a guy's garage or a big corp's lobby. It's their rules.
@werefreeatlast @adamdavidson Which would make it more like a regular bar than a clubhouse - you don't get to set the rules, but as long as you abide by the norms of the establishment you're free to hang out.
I guess the clubhouse metaphor would be appropriate if it was important for everyone to be on the same server. Considering, however, that the whole point of Mastodon is that we're on different servers, it seems like a backwards way of describing the platform.
@werefreeatlast Upon reading the article, I guess the clubhouse metaphor seems to be aimed at the local feed, which I imagine is a bit of a journalist club on journa.host.
I mean, fair enough. That is one way of using the platform.
The fact that content is not automatically shared far and wide to people who never asked to see it is, I can imagine, a substantial downgrade from the perspective journalistic users. Also fair. Not sure it's potent criticism, but fair.