Remember how I said a while ago that Mastodon's spread would depend on increasingly niche explanations (and documentation/code/idea contributions) as more people adopted it?
I'd been explaining it by relating it to email or Usenet. I hadn't even thought of BBSes and MMORPG servers before @chuckwendig's post. It doesn't make sense to me, but it seems to make sense to others, which is great!
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/11/14/toot-toot-motherfucker-early-thoughts-on-mastodon/