Richard LittlerSome daft kick-back on Twitter over the weekend about joining Mastodon. Right leaners accusing me of deranged liberalism and ordering me to leave; left leaners accusing me of being a coward and leaving the good fight against fascism on Twitter. I'm doing neither, you bores.
Robert Anthony SiyI've been told by Twitter 'numbers'-type accounts that Mastodon is rife with racism, far-left extremism, white-only bourgeois values, paedophilia; it's an echo chamber, it's dangerous & unmoderated, it's too controlled, it's woke, it's full of anarchists. I mainly see academics' cat pics...
Leonor Sindemore@Richard_Littler in my mammoth's house are many mansions
Mike Collins@Richard_Littler I think it's a lovely little tearoom in Hay on Wye with everyone eating their crumpets quietly so as not to disturb the ambience
Arnfinn Pettersen@Richard_Littler
Sounds like they're talking about themselves.
Sounds like they're talking about themselves.
Michael WinibergIndeed, compared with Twitter, my experience here has been a total breath of fresh air. I've already found far more and more interesting accounts to follow than I ever found on Twitter.
Whether Twitter survives or not, I certainly won't be leaving this place!
COMPU73E ❄️@Richard_Littler I'm so over that place
MarmosetJ@Richard_Littler the bot farms are working in overdrive at the moment
Jon Walmsley@Richard_Littler The good thing about this place is that if a load of extremists flock over here then the server admins can boot them, or if they choose not to then we can just block whatever server they are on.
I don't mind hearing alternative views (I think it's important) but alternative views are one thing, and grifting/trolling/bigotry is another, and Mastodon has the tools to deal with that quite nicely.
ChrisBracken@Richard_Littler all that disinfo money wasted. Screaming into the void.
DeborahMaeve@Richard_Littler Vinnie agrees. Tho’ don’t tell me there’s not a correlation; you don’t see a lot of dog owners on here do you? #catsofmastodon
William Ingle-Gillis@DeborahMaeve @Richard_Littler - Frank and Little Cat, here depicted separately, are currently waiting patiently in line to drink the leftover vegan milk from out of my stepdaughter’s cereal bowl. Frankly, you don’t get more bleeding heart hippy leftie liberal than that.
Mark O - Hall monitor type@Richard_Littler I did go onto a Peertube instance yesterday, and came across one feed which although apparently anti paedophilia was exhorting why people should be open to older men having relationships with teens. It is there, and the issue is it's hidden away like a dark web.
dr. jean-paul | 🇿🇦in🇹🇼@Richard_Littler cat pictures are always good.
Koochulainn@Richard_Littler Presumably these accounts are big fans of free speech too
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Quasarsphere@Richard_Littler Cat pics, you say? Well, alrighty then! This is Reginald, my awesome companion of eight years:
@Richard_Littler Also, this is Alvina. She's four weeks old, so I can't officially adopt her yet, but I will do so in about a month.
woolfhound@Richard_Littler we’ve got everything here!
George@Richard_Littler 🤣🤣🤣desperate disinformation
Michelle Laverick Music@Richard_Littler I’m no culture warrior myself on birdsite, but have wondered by quiting is that a retreat. But it strikes me alt-right types thrive on conflict & they are annoyed by the fact they can’t generate outrage to fuel their clicks. So perhaps tactic disengagement is way of breaking the hate=clicks=new recruits model…
GillianA 🌺@Richard_Littler Happy to provide an alternative to cats. Autumn sunset in Perth, Australia. March 2022.
Per your comment... The poorly educated ... 😉
Per your comment... The poorly educated ... 😉
Luke@Richard_Littler ha! I've had a similar sort of experience: been on Mastodon for over 5 years and have been very bemused by all the recent hot takes on Twitter about Mastodon as literally none of them are anything I recognise.
Severák@Richard_Littler there are far-right racist instances, but they are mostly defederated by rest of fedi. There is no paedophilia, but historically some lolicon which can be confused (see this for more info https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/). And woke anarchist are too busy with cats pics.
Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is... uncomfortable - Ethan Zuckerman
Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a 24-year old German software engineer, as an alternative to Twitter. Recent news about CloudFlare’s decision to stop providing services to the Daily Stormer has me thinking about decentralized publishing, one… Read More »Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable
Steph Miller@Richard_Littler like my profile picture? Lol.
boaz@Richard_Littler I feel like moving ahead on both Twitter and Mastodon is the thing to do. We don't know where Twitter will go, and users only have limited power to control its direction.
KryptykPhysh@Richard_Littler How it be both, "unmoderated," and, "too controlled"?
Also, my cat is broken.
Douglas @revdjenk Jenkins
woske 🍉@Richard_Littler they were talking about the cats. The cats are racist.
range@Richard_Littler that’s what I’ve come for. Academia & cats
Betancourt, writer@Richard_Littler
I guess we're making a difference!
I guess we're making a difference!
Monoscope
vibemaster@Richard_Littler how did you get the blue check?
@vibemaster On Twitter? I was given it, possibly to distinguish me from other Richard Littlers who are also designers. Also, a few years ago, there were a couple of accounts that tried to imitate me and ask people for money.