As a #mefite, fascinated to watch people from the community find each other to seed our networks. Patterns like this make sense; it's wonderful to know that I can find others, and it also bodes poorly for the future network diversity of the Mastodon network.
@natematias Yeah, it's a paradox. I'm both excited to share this space with internet people I like -- and a #mefite is basically the default model there for me -- and to break out of some of my existing social network territory.
The need to make an active, curatorial effort to fill in my follows with folks who *aren't* readily at hand speaks to why those reinforced networks happen; it's *easy* to do a follow train from the MeFi thread, harder to Go Find New Strange People.
@joshmillard @natematias I think the local/federated timeline views is a big help here in spotting potential new follows.
