Mastodon in a nutshell
@yeday The door is very heavy, there are no customers and the interior decorating is extremely sparse but the light is working.
@yeday Also 'And if you come inside do as we do'.
@yeday but once you're in its SO much better than imagined!
@yeday …and it’s bigger inside than expected.

@Divorytaur @yeday oh yes ... The consoles of all the other incarnations are stored for archive purposes within the bend of the TARDIS spacetime bubble just phase shifted if I remember correctly. #MastodonWHO #mastodon #DoctorWhoَ

On an addendum: do we have a mastodon equivalent of the eye of harmony?!? We need that! Like, so bad, man!
#Alonsy

@yeday once you DO manage to open that door, though 😍
@yeday I’m thankful I walked in a touch before dinner service started, the door was pretty well oiled then.
@yeday True, but it is bad? It is good?
@yeday It’s heavy but sane (hopefully).
@yeday I can second this, having just setup my own mastodon instance. The learning curve is pretty steep, even when doing it from Docker.
@yeday please remember to include all text, will help blind people like myself figure out what the image is.

@mikereiser08 @yeday

It's a picture of a sign on a door that says "we are open the door is just very heavy"

@mikereiser08 @yeday

Alt text: image of a sign on a shop door saying "The door is open it's just very heavy."

Images that don't have alt text don't get boosted. Them is the rules.

@yeday Nate Silver on Twitter: said

"Mastodon seems like a honeytrap for hall-monitor personality types. Honestly if Elon gets all the hall monitors to migrate to Mastodon that might be his ..."

@yeday A month ago, zero people were talking about how hard it is to participate on the Fediverse.
@mike @yeday weird, i wonder what changed
@ancient_catbus @yeday To be fair, I still have only seen hearsay of these complaints. Maybe a tiny selection filter isn’t a bad thing.
@yeday "We are open, there are just many doors with connecting hallways and a great room."
@yeday also academia, if you are a woman or other minority.
@yeday he ain't heavy, he's my brother
@yeday and honestly that's probably a good thing 😅
@steelman @yeday <Silent Bob raising his arms emoji that we don't have>
@yeday Maybe this site will help you: https://fedi.tips/
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@yeday Getting to know me, tbh
@yeday but once you have that door open its an absolutely wonderful place!
@yeday
Especially if one is hosting their own instance! 😹

@yeday

between this and "deciding what service to file my taxes with", mastodon was way easier.

idk if that's an endorsement, but I think most people manage to file their taxes, so

edit: y'know, comparing mastodon favorably to navigating tax software may not be the endorsement i envisioned vOv

@yeday I think Mastodon is more like "Hey, why are there so many doors leading to different departments? That's confusing!". And the Fediverse even contains other stores in the mall.
@yeday this made me laugh out loud. So true
@yeday change is always heavy .. especially if it's for a cause.
@yeday “Contrary to popular belief, UN*X /is/ quite user friendly. It's just quite selective who its friends are.“
@yeday It's that people have their hands cuffed by the big platforms.
@yeday not really so much, there are plenty of guides and people offering invite links to ease the onboarding process. I found a little bit of effort was worth it
@yeday I feel like that should have been a haiku
The Hollies: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother (2019 Remaster Video)

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@yeday
I had the same feeling.
The whole "choose a server", a major deal breaker.
@yeday The door was heavy the first day. After a little while I felt like up and running!
@yeday can you put an image description on that? regardless if it's good, without an image description I and possibly others just won't boost it. Inclusion and accessibility is far more important here than on the birdsite, here we really treat one another like human beings, not resources for the algorythm, so we try to accomodate the needs of our fellow fedizens as much as we can, so please be more considerate next time, OK?
#a11y #accessibility #TwitterMigration
@yeday my personality in a nutshell.