Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton
[ad_1] When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so you could watch little dots popping up all over the globe. (I even made a short video recording…