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Andrea RocealJun 24, 2019
Finding the #whyareyouhere posts an interesting read. I have a long answer and a short answer, but I’m nearly at my train station so short for now. I’m on aus.social because I like the tenor of the folks that post here. I’m on Mastodon because I never really got into Twitter and Facebook was giving me the shits on multiple levels. I like the independent/federated idea, have been burned by other platforms disappearing: MySpace, Orkut etc.
It's SKAAUGUSTJun 24, 2019
#whyareyouhere?
- no fweaken normies to cramp on my style
- instance format means that if i dont like how one guys modding i can just skip on over to another one
- no ads influencers or people trying to sell me stuff
bell jarJun 24, 2019

#WhyAreYouHere i was burned out by the birdsite and abandoned my account there a couple of years ago.

when i found out about mastodon i joined up with .social and read a lot more about what federation was and how it works. i thought it was a great way to have a birdsite alternative without any corporate bs. now it feels so much more than that

i've always tinkered around with my own blogs and servers, it seemed only natural to start my own instance, and here we are!

hopefully years more of it

some dudeJun 24, 2019
Hi! If you're reading this, please ask yourself "Why Are You Here?" - let's start with the instance you're on, and expand to mastodon. do you prefer this federated, self hosted model? just trying something new? tell us all.
You can read my and many other responses over at #WhyAreYouHere.
I'd love to read yours.
some dudeJun 24, 2019
@JacksonBates I think I posted online first but it might have just been the result of conversations relating to someone who got annoyed and left our instance that myself and @Tarale had at our house so I'm pretty happy both of us being the authors of #WhyAreYouHere :)
Show threadsome dudeJun 24, 2019

they do "raise the stakes" in the film that ultimately plays on (the legitimate imo) fear of the security of devices in your home, and the services that you use. What I think this comes back to is also #WhyAreYouHere on Mastodon.

Make technology to serve you, not you to serve technology and the core component of that is trust. The whole #DepreciateTwitter thing is because Twitter serves twitters bottom line, they lost my trust ages ago but I thought I had nowhere to go.

Matthew "Smiffy" SmithJun 23, 2019
#whyareyouhere
I can't overstate the importance of social media in my life. I am isolated geographically, and by chronic ill-health. I have literally no IRL people that I haven't met through social media or otherwise online (I am living in a foreign country) and all my work barring what I'm doing at the moment has been through social media. All of this was built on Twitter, and a bit of LinkedIn.
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Jun 23, 2019

So #WhyAreYouHere Mike?

From the late 1980s, I've lived part of my life in online communities. At times when I've felt totally lost, my online homes have kept me going.

Sometimes you just need some place to BE, and I believe it's not acceptable for those needs to be manipulated by some company that's in the business of selling access your friends back to you. The price is always too high.

So Chinwag exists to provide the tools for people to talk, lurk or walk away. You're welcome here.