Lilly IFeeling a little like mastodon is like jumping into an open source coffee shop that has a lot of nice regulars. I hope they are not like omg who are all these people!! Maybe it is just my server...
Ricardus@gleemie The people I work for kinda own an Open Source Coffee Shop.
@Ricardus where do you or they live?
lori@gleemie I love seeing all the new faces around here
David@gleemie Nah it's great. Most everyone here now are veeery early adopters and really want to see it grow.
curious gene@gleemie It feels (to me, at least) a lot like the pre-dot-com-boom Internet. There's a certain shared interest in maintaining the space.
Mr Bitterness@gleemie you're not entirely off the mark. It was nice and quiet here a week ago, but we've also been through several of these cycles. I'd say somewhere between 5-10% actually stick around permanently.
The most obnoxious are the ppl who crosspost their twitter feed into Mastodon, but in no other way participate here. They just keep blasting their crap into Mastodon / the Fediverse.
@mrbitterness I don't think people are used to the whole community that isn't just who you follow thing. It does seem better to treat this space as an existing community and read the room like a guest. Must be funny and or annoying watching is noobs bumbling around.
I've actually had this accounts for years and I had a little spurt of hanging out here a few months ago but didn't quite catch the rhythm. I hope to find and build community here for real.
@gleemie well, the whole thing is really how you choose to use it. For most newbies, I tell them that they can safely ignore local and Federated feeds, treat it mostly like twitter. Once comfortable, you can use the local / Federated feeds for discovery & branching out, but you don't *need* to, it's purely optional.
Russ SharekI've been here a while, and I think you nailed the description well.