The Senate is the worst institution in the federal government. Somewhat worse than SCOTUS, though that one tries for the title pretty hard.

#caturday

So far it's been precisely the opposite but that could(and likely will) change with growth.

Maybe. Part of the reason they didnt catch on is because of Facebook and Twitter. People were discouraged from leaving their social app and outside content was generally punished by algorithms. There was a period of time where I was hearing "blogging is dead". It never was, but it became less popular. Now a lot of blogs I used to follow are Substacks.

This platform seems vastly superior to Mastodon. Onboard was very simple. The decentralization seems much more thorough.