I have a tough time with Mastodon. I'm going to use it. But every time I login all I see is competitive snark about Twitter.
This makes Mastodon feel like Left Gab to me.
Mastodon is not "eventually going to beat Twitter." I don't even understand why that is what's on so many people's minds. The reason to use Mastodon, I would think, is to be in a place you can think, interact, organize, and exist with less bullshit.
That's exactly what it could be, but out of the three times I've attempted to settle in there, the first had me harassed away from the platform while the second and this time depress me with the focus on Twitter.
I'm not going to get too fired up about this here. But I really want to say that I'm here just to try to relax a bit and talk about what I'm doing.
Whatever happens happens.
@petercoffin Honestly I only want Mastodon to get big so my friends start to use it, otherwise I really don't care if Mastodon is a competitor or replacement for birdsite
also the positivity here is nice
@MnemonicLight @petercoffin I think people trying to pitch it as a 1:1 Twitter replacement are wrong, but only because they're equivocating without realizing it. What they mean is that Mastodon is like Old Twitter, the place where you talk to your friends and see what's up with their day.
It's radically different from New Twitter, the "news" app where you consume viral Content(tm) and current events and discourse until you're depressed.
Mastodon is more like an evolution of email.
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