emlowalshNov 7, 2022
Gerard Cunningham ✒️
So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.
Nov 6, 2022 at 3:21pmWeb
Show threadbeatraxaNov 6, 2022
@faduda Yes, I quickly decided that this is the place for calm interaction. If I want to rage, or lock horns with someone, I’ll do it over there. I think we’re all relieved.
Show threadd.Nov 6, 2022
@faduda totally agree…👍
Show threadColin H.Nov 6, 2022
@faduda @davidallengreen I stumbled across this excellent blog which explains why certain significant Twitter features are missing from Mastodon. Although there are still some minor tweaks I'd would like to see made, it's reassuring to see Mastodon being built - very deliberately, as you say - to avoid some of the birdsite's pitfalls.
https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/
4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having

When less is more for healthy conversations

Show threadWoke in PDX FellaNov 6, 2022
@GlasWolf @faduda @davidallengreen Love this! Great analysis!
Show threadArdentArchivistNov 6, 2022
@faduda
Thank you!
Show threadZerov (he/him)Nov 6, 2022

@faduda Mastodon is actually exactly what I was looking for. Social platforms don't have to be these incredibly fast and chaotic streams of memes and dusgusting political takes by trolls and grifters.

The information you consume determines the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. And Twitter and Reddit are responsible for so much brain rot.

Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyNov 7, 2022
@zerov @faduda you clearly have interesting things to say and I shall subscribe to your thoughtstream. 😀
Show threadDetective BuzzkillNov 6, 2022
@faduda Indeed! I feel like I'm "in recovery" after making the decision to try this instead of the birdsite. When I first scrolled my local feed, I felt this barely familiar degree of excitement upon reading a non-political post from a stranger who mentioned a non-political topic that I, too, am interested in. And just like that, my first day on Mastodon, I felt like I felt in 1995 when I learned there was an entire IRC channel just for X-Files fans.
Show threadCiarán O'BrienNov 6, 2022
@faduda You can make something better here. You can probably also just recreate twitter's worst qualities if you're That Way but I would prefer not.
Show threadSadie Ní ManacháinNov 6, 2022
@Sarklor @faduda what was that thing called on twitter where you're not quoting a tweet/person but you're clearly alluding to someone without naming them? I've forgotten what it was called. Anyway, I saw that today here once and it's a side (snide) of twitter that I hope doesn't show up again.
Show threadCiarán O'BrienNov 6, 2022
@MonkseySee @faduda Subtweets/subtoots. They're still a thing, but in my experience rare and I have never understood who or what it was about.
Show threadSadie Ní ManacháinNov 6, 2022
@Sarklor @faduda ah yes that was it, thanks. I never liked that carry-on. It will be interesting to see what the former mastodon community feels about the way this exodus will change things for them. I really really hope we all learn to get along a little better instead of polluting what seems like a nice peaceful platform 🙏🏻
Show threadCiarán O'BrienNov 6, 2022
@MonkseySee @faduda The spaces I hang out in anyway give arseholes short shrift. Being good doesn't require being nice to arseholes. Like any community, it's what its members collectively make it.
Show threadPilgrimBrotherNov 6, 2022
@faduda agreed 👍
Show threadRichard PierceNov 6, 2022
@faduda well said!
Show threadPeter ButlerNov 6, 2022
@faduda Twitter’s downfall started when it decided not to moderate the hate but double-down and invest in it.
Show threadI_Like_TurtlesNov 6, 2022

@peterbutler @faduda

I hate to say it but that is the republican model.

Generate as much anger and hate as possible and monetize it.

Show threadStick-pinsNov 6, 2022
@faduda similar to being at a school where bullying was rife and starting a new school. I’m on my best behaviour
Show threadMatt PotterNov 6, 2022
@faduda Amen! Brilliant summation. Finding a real spirit of generosity and mutual curiosity here that’s gotta be worth cultivating with care and preserving. Cheers!
Show threaddeanNov 6, 2022
@faduda Leavjng twitter and finding masto
Show threadJacob Lara ✅Nov 6, 2022
@faduda Well said.
Show threadRaibeartmacNov 6, 2022
@faduda I'm enjoying the feel of it already (though naively imagined there might be no pro-UK presence - there is, sadly.) But still, there's always the mute and block options.
Show threadjohnwallaceNov 6, 2022
@faduda I really hope this doesn’t preclude heated debate? If it’s literally just an oasis of calm, I won’t be here very long.
Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Nov 6, 2022
@johnwallace There's a point at which debate is just shouting and snarling.
If you miss the fight, there's always the birdsite.
Show threadjohnwallaceNov 6, 2022
@faduda Hmm, I definitely don’t appreciate the condescending tone. I have absolutely no interest in a happy clappy social media platform where we all pretend that everyone agrees with everyone else and never disagree strongly. We’re all messy human beings, not machines. And yes, I’m very much still on Twitter(that’s its name) and will continue on both platforms.
Show threadlord pthenq1Nov 6, 2022

@faduda dice

"Esto es lo que he aprendido. Mastodon no es Twitter. Y eso es por diseño.

Te has acostumbrado a las cosas diseñadas para darte esa ráfaga de ira.

Mastodon está construido deliberadamente para evitar eso.

La tentación es replicar tu experiencia en Twitter. Recogiendo argumentos, amplificando trolls.

Por favor, no.

Esta no es tu casa, la gente de aquí dedica tiempo a construirla.

Advertencias de contenido, etiquetas ALT.

No lo conviertas en una réplica del desastre que acabas de dejar.

Si echas de menos las peleas, el sitio de las aves sigue ahí."

Show threadeena meena meNov 6, 2022

@faduda well, i mean, you can.

but then people will start blocking your instance and you'll very quickly find yourself living in an echo chamber.

Show threadshimst3r is now on famichikiNov 6, 2022
@faduda this is such a wonderful toot 🥹
Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Nov 6, 2022
@shimst3r Thank you
Show threadMelissaNov 6, 2022
@faduda 100%! This experience is already so much better than Twitter. It’s so refreshing to be on a social media site again that seems to value human connection over algorithms. I might start enjoying social media again 😂
Show threadMoNov 6, 2022
@faduda it’s everything I like about here… in fact I haven’t followed anyone I followed on the burd site over here… all new engagement for me and I love it!
Show threadtom4okstateNov 6, 2022
@faduda Have already found I really appreciate the content warnings.
Show threadNarwhalNov 6, 2022
@faduda This sounded so buttoned up to me when I arrived last week and now I'm like, yes please, let's do this.😂
Show threadThe Truly Cheap GuyNov 6, 2022
@faduda The anger rush is what you don't see here. Totally agree.
Show threadThe Year of Horror MoviesNov 6, 2022

@faduda I think what Twitter tends to forget is that there are many of us who have formed relationships via the platform. It’s not just a platform.

The way Musk talks about it, it’s divorced from the common experience. Freedom of speech? Really? We have been happily communicating with each other for years.

I’ve met people, I’ve formed friendships, I’ve hated and I’ve shunned people.

It’s what we do isn’t it. Relationships don’t always work out.

Show thread🐌’s PaceNov 6, 2022
@faduda OK. My favorite toot so far (2 days into this journey). Please follow this rare advice, my friends, so we can all enjoy our new home. Remember the alternative.
Show threadStephen BatesNov 6, 2022
@faduda this post earned you a new follower.
Show threadBooksDarlingNov 6, 2022
@faduda I appreciate the insight. As I step into this new environment, I’m not sure what to expect and want to figure out how to find the more delightful and satisfying parts of the previous community and leave the sadness, cruelty and chaos behind.
Show threadjohn mizerek 🤡Nov 7, 2022
@faduda i have a lot of what you're feeling is short-term growing-pain blues.
Show threadtpovioNov 7, 2022
@faduda I started my Twitter account in February 2008, and it felt different and interesting, it has the same feel here, so those deliberate decisions are very welcome for me.
Show threadKyleH 🇨🇦Nov 7, 2022
@faduda “don’t move from California to Texas expecting it to be like living in California again, and then trying to make it same place you just left” is a fun parallel I’ve been hearing about
Show threadGrant R. Gulovsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦Nov 7, 2022
@faduda I never realized how much of the bird site is performative until I came over here. Now whenever I see someone try to replicate that by posting a screenshot of something someone said on the bird site and sharing it with their followers to get them worked up it makes me cringe.
Show threadoshyNov 7, 2022

@faduda Every time people come here and are like "We need X like Twitter"

I just think
Nooo
We are already better than twitter, if you want twitter: use twitter

Show threadSarahNov 7, 2022

@faduda I'm testing out Mastodon and hoping it could be a new internet "home", and it would be *really* lovely to be able to start again without some of the bad habits of Twitter.

Twitter has been my go-to for community, and I've learned so much from people there, but there's definitely stuff that was already *not* functioning or sustainable prior to Musk getting his hands on it.

Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Nov 7, 2022
@SarahAnneDipity The birdsite was toxic before Musk. He just accelerated it so fast that the frogs finally started to notice the water was boiling and jumped out.
Show threadRistin RaccoonNov 7, 2022
@faduda It reminds me a bit of ye-olde LiveJournal.
Show threadCatguyNov 7, 2022
@faduda
Amen
Show threadTQ 🌌Nov 7, 2022
@faduda well put.
Show threadHachiko from Birdsite 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 7, 2022
@faduda you're absolutely right and this is why this site is better
Show threadLuisa N. BorrellNov 7, 2022
@faduda Hard agree 💯 💯
Show threadMoritz S.Nov 7, 2022
@faduda well said! Thanks.
Show threadamy (she/her)Nov 7, 2022
@faduda Love it. I actually left Twitter awhile ago so very happy for a new, not Twitter experience 🙌🏳️‍🌈❤️😍
Show threadEthel CrimbleNov 7, 2022
@faduda
With you. I would like something gentler and kinder.
Show threadMichael BoeziNov 7, 2022
"Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left." 🏆 @faduda
Show threadClionaNov 7, 2022
@faduda Well said. I'm hopeful👍🏼
Show threadBob CunninghamNov 7, 2022
@faduda so now I have to follow by virtue of accident of birth.
No idea what you do but how bad can it be?
Show threadJim PembrokeNov 7, 2022
@faduda I hope there is still an opportunity to have your ideas tested, challenged. Respectfully, of course. It's fun and away to learn and grow.