TheaNov 6, 2022

I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.

Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.

Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.

Show threadBusesarecoolactually🚌🚍Nov 6, 2022
@sitharus you really can’t search? I assumed I wasn’t getting results because the servers are all bogged down with new members.
Show threadTheaNov 6, 2022
@busesarecoolactually you can search for hashtags and people, not on arbitrary content. It’s a deliberate choice to stop topic brigading. Also you can only search what your instance has seen, not the whole fediverse.
Show threadLinus NärklingNov 6, 2022
@sitharus Does that mean the amount of results I get when searching hashtags depends on the size of my instance?
Show threadThea
@vapid it does, you can't search everything in the fediverse because it's not a unified network. Larger instances will (in theory) have more diverse connections and therefore more results in search.
Nov 6, 2022 at 8:20pmWeb
Show threadSwitchNov 7, 2022
@sitharus @vapid many larger instances will also have less strict rules about oppressive content. I prefer fewer connections with better people.