It's a great idea. However, there appears to be a *steep* learning curve, perhaps as steep as the internet in general, which is often embarrassingly steep.
The designer is great, and I totally applaud the team for getting the whole thing up and functioning, in the coding sense anyway, in a matter of days. That's motivation I have never had, lol. It's a blockchain site, so there is no way to stop the signal from getting to users... which does have it's downfall for users, if you've ever read the reports of other blockchains being seized, but hey we're all in this together and I totally understand that we have to face that. They've got legal counsel to cover *their* asses...
All in all, awesome.
Then the rest... common sense isn't all that common. As fast as it went up, it is taking people longer than the entire site took to be built to figure out that *wait a minute* it's still a subset of a public site, and their convos are being broadcast to the entire world and google indexed. Overnight Mastadon went from a collection of small specialized social groups to now being wallpapered 24 hours a day with explicit ads, dudes rudely asking who will do various asks for how much in what specific section of their city, and endless shoutouts from idiots proclaiming how good a nut they had with the chick that posted 5 minutes ago, and yelling at the admin for not adding reviews and a verfication system (Internet Gods are actually secretly human, and have to sleep and feed themselves and do human things, aside from coding virtual playgrounds for the less able).
I. Can. Not.
I really wish people would check themselves before they wreck themselves.
Don't get me wrong, the internet has always been 94% porn, even in 1994. However, now that other 6% of the internet apparently *hates* human sexuality, and we have to at least be polite. Or at least make The Man work for his money a little bit when he comes looking for us, jesus.
I still think overall it's a good thing. These people exist, and closing any site will not make them cease to exist, and I think it's good that the populous gets to see who the populous is, even if the mirror is unflattering at times. It will be a good wakeup call for many people, for many different reasons.
And I do think it will even out eventually, hopefully the webdev team doesn't have to take on too much liability by moderating it, which is a dangerously slippery slope. They've already had to restrict girls from posting ads more than twice a day (some were literally every 15 minutes)...
~Mme X~