wakest likes your bugs ⁂the #fediverse / #mastodon is on the front page of CNN right now
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/tech/mastodon/index.html
this influx might be bigger then we realized...
[But Mastodon scratches a certain itch. The service has a similar look to Twitter, with a timeline of short updates sorted chronologically rather than algorithmically. It lets users join a slew of different servers run by various groups and individuals, rather than one central platform controlled by a single company like Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.]
[And while you can follow any other Mastodon user, no matter which server they’ve signed up with, you can only see the lists of who follows your Mastodon friends, or who your Mastodon friends follow, if the followers happen to belong to the same server you’re signed up with (I realized this while trying to track down more people I know who recently signed up).]
[There is a server operated by the nonprofit behind Mastodon, Mastodon.social, but it’s not accepting more users; I’m currently using one called Mstdn.social, which is also where I can sign in to access Mastodon on the web.] hey @stux you got a cnn reporter on ur instance
[But unlike on Twitter, where I can easily interact with a large audience, my Mastodon network is less than 100 followers. Suddenly I had no idea what to post — a feeling that never nags me on Twitter, perhaps because the size of that network makes any post feel less consequential.] ok they dont get it
raphael@liaizon people, considering mastodon: ‘what’s an instance? what do you mean federated? this makes no sense! you mean the admins have access to all the nuts and bolts? you want me to think about how to frobnicate the activitymabop across the fediverse? you have brain worms!’
those same people: ‘how does my personality the brand, when the brand, branding reach, an audience and content engagement, drops every wednesday, with the brand, while branderizing, and myself?’
@gekitsu this just made me audibly laugh out loud