Today is my 1 month anniversary of signing up for Mastodon. A few observations—after spending 13+ years on Twitter:
•The Mastodon community is kinder & more focused on lifting one another up than tearing down.
•Mastodon is learning from Twitter's mistakes by including accessibility options, incorporating an edit button, & not centralizing everything
•Engagement is not dependent on clickbait or outrage, but genuine positive content.
None of the above are absolutes, but overall, glad I'm here.
@QasimRashid to be fair, the community on "the fediverse" is comparatively young.
That being said, it's not without issues. People "at the top" in the project could let fame go to their heads if they're not careful.
@root @QasimRashid There's no such group though. There's just each server owner. A very disparate group. And if you don't like them for some reason you can start your own instance of mastodon and federate with all the others you want to.
Every public interest organization could have its own server. Your neighborhood could. A knitting circle in the next town could. The Senate could. The ACLU. It doesn't need ads. It will never be owned by one billionaire
@SusanKraemer @QasimRashid I didn't mean "admins at the top" - I'm very much aware of per-instance management.
I'm talking about the developers and project owner for the Mastodon *code*.
Good read. May be a bit more than one guy.
@ccradle @root @QasimRashid Corey, you are right - a bit more than one guy!
But now you can mute, block or report any poster by clicking on the 3 dots bottom right of their post, also can choose who to follow, accept or reject a follower
@SusanKraemer
Yep...looks like community is moving things in the right direction. More work to do(especially around welcoming Black Twitter) but there's hope.
@QasimRashid Thanks! I've been on for nearly two weeks and would agree with these.
I want to switch my professional Twitter account over at some point, and am paying a lot of attention to which industries are on here. Journalists, techies, academics, and healthcare/medical professionals appear to be taking off. In my industry of FinTech startups, not so much ... but I know things are changing quickly and am watching.
Your client software should take care of the logins. What r U using? I have used Tusky (on Android) for at least 5 yrs and have never had a problem.
The best thing for getting some new voices into your timeline is to follow some hashtags for some things that you are interested in. It puts posts from people using those hashtags into your timeline. Then you can can interact with and follow people posting about those topics. It has really helped me with connecting to people here.
Click on a hashtag, and then when you get page for it, click on the icon in the top right corner of the page.
@dorkland @Singlepayer1978 @QasimRashid
Also when you read something interesting tap the poster's thumbnail photo. That takes you to that person's home page, where U can subscribe to that person and get his/her posts in your home feed.
Thanks that did help
@QasimRashid Very few of my former Twitter community is here, but I hope they will join. It’s a nice community.
I’m on Post.news too, and it seems to be the shiny coin for the moment. But maybe they should have worked out their moderation and bugs before they let everyone (including me) in. I much prefer Mastodon right now.
@SusanKraemer @QasimRashid I find the tipping system distasteful too. And of course, the only people who will be tipped are the influencers and popular… (privileged) people.
I won’t use a single coin.
@QasimRashid This seems mostly true. I have had a good experience, but I'm a white guy who mainly posts photos of my hikes.
There are some people with large followings who offended the trolls on Twitter who find that the trolls have followed them here and harass them here with racist/misogynist attacks, and since the attacks are only in replies that stuff doesn't show up on the timeline and overstressed moderators aren't keeping up. I hope ways can be found to deal with that.
@QasimRashid plus - the 500 character limit is far more conducive to having a real conversation than a couple grunts and an emoji.
I think this multiple decentralized containers (servers/instances) to contain multitudes of us holds real promise for how to grow sustainably
After all twitter had 5,000 employees. That's going to always cost one billionaire. Better to have multiple sites, but federate them together to chitchat
Also, if you hate black backgrounds you can change it to light mode.
@QasimRashid I agree. I only fear the feeling of old days' bulletin boards will start to wear off with more people coming in. There is a social theory that any community that grows above a certain level is doomed to fall apart.
I just enjoy mastodon until then and am happy the masses are not yet here 😅
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