@jaz@toot.wales said in New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?: It seems holistic and representative of "the Mastodon community" because it happened in /our/ Fediverse, but does it truly reflect a community value? Yes, because "our" fediverse bleeds through to every one of the other million fediverses, Jaz. That's Laurens' point, I think. What we need, and what I think you already identified with the Twit (shoot, Tŵt) app are very strong local presence. The local feed should be front and center, with fediverse-wide interactions coming to the forefront only when things escape the local bubble and go viral. A lot of that is UI. Mastodon's UI deliberately blurs the local/federated bubbles in order to chase that "public town square" feel. It's hard to find the right balance, and as someone who like to think tech can provide the answers, I fear the answer might be that the balance is different for every single community; no one UX can correctly be applied. cc @fediversereport@mastodon.social