Annie Mueller:

I enjoy dipping into Micro.blog and Mastodon, and I’ve gotten to meet and interact with people I wouldn’t have encountered otherwise. 

But I think we’re putting an undue amount of pressure on the fediverse to provide community for us. No platform can build or provide community. People are the only ones who can build community, and we do it by nurturing individual connections with each other.

We can use the fediverse as a tool for this, just like we can use our own blogs, and email, messaging, phone conversations, video calls, streaming interactions, and in-person visits.