MediocredaveWhat do I have to do to make this experience enjoyable?
Jack Sprat@Mediocredave I see you answered this question by following me, so you're off to a good start. Missed a chance to try out AdequateDave tho.
@jacqueimo brand too strong! I'm stool struggling to see the appeal of this but it's better since I locked the door on the instance timeline and the away the key and just went back to rebuilding my Twitter follows.
@Mediocredave "stool struggling" is an excellent typo. For now, I think ppl are appreciating the relative quietness, and there's been a feel that this place isn't as difficult to be on. I'm curious to see how decentralisation and the easier content noting works (also different visibilities on each toot is good)
@jacqueimo I'm still quite concerned about the security (i.e. there isn't any) and the amount of power the mods have. CW is a great feature (also just for keeping the tl tidy with long posts). Feel like a lot of the enthusiasm is based off of a feeling of reprieve from Twitter.
@Mediocredave would agree with that too. Would also echo what ppl have said that Twitter had similar setup (DMs can be read and pretty similar unaccountable modding) - also sceptical too of that tho (in the non pejorative sense of the word)
@jacqueimo Sure, but Twitter had many users. Some of these instances are tiny, and with the way that following people from other instances allows your mods to access their DMs, I think there are more pronounced problems.
Joseph is not here@Mediocredave @jacqueimo it's not a fix per se, but the obvious workaround is to swap handles for end-to-end encrypted messengers and take convos there.
Italian Mastodon At Food@Mediocredave just say any old shit that involves a toot pun
@joshsilvani That really does seem to be it, huh?
@Mediocredave it's surprisingly endearing, and opens up from there really I think
@joshsilvani @Mediocredave it's making me realise how much what I post is riffing off the TL. So when the TL is just toot puns it becomes an endless loop.
@jk76 @joshsilvani Been wishing for a long time that people would tweet about something other than Twitter. We'll see when the hype has died down whether the same problem occurs here.
hob@Mediocredave i honestly just mostly followed people i was already following on twitter so my tl here is a mini version, except everyone is p exuberant coz its new, and also nobody is quote tooting whatever objectionable shit some columnist has most recently said
@hobomundas I've taken the same route; the instance timeline was line the worst of Twitter pushing tweets because people liked them; an unbidden stream of ultimately irrelevant content. Guess to make this good I need to contribute some actual content that isn't commentary about social media.