Fantastic article, thank you for sharing. I think it really hits the nail on the head as far as the exclusionary culture goes - members of the Fediverse want the Fediverse to grow, but by-and-large they want the Fediverse to grow full of people just like them - and, unfortunately, most people just like them are already here.

Once the technical kinks are worked out (easier said than done, I know), it’s the user experience that has to be improved, and the overall onboarding experience must be tuned for people who don’t know or care what a Fediverse is besides “that place where I can see the reddit and twitter type posts”. Yes, maybe the community will change and we’ll hit our own “eternal September” moment, but it’ll be better overall for the internet to have social media decentralized. This could very well be our Web 3.0 turning point but we have to accept the bad with the good if we want that sort of future.