Mike Lawler 
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The fact that we all came to #mastodon looking for an app just lke Twitter and 2 days later we are all happy that Mastodon is in fact NOT like Twitter, says a lot about that little birdie.
fleudiddy@mayaisloading that’s a feature not a flaw
@fleudiddy Exactly.
Michelangelo Signorile@mayaisloading not one troll yet
@msignorile Feels like we entered a secret community.
@mayaisloading and like you can do things here that you wouldn’t there
Piper Carter@mayaisloading that’s funny
Boiglenoight@mayaisloading I keep seeing posts to the contrary, almost exclusively from #journalism and #academia. Demands for things like #fulltextsearch and #quoteposts to help people find and repeat what others say seems like something that would benefit these groups while diminishing the appeal of finding any topic quickly by simple hashtag search.
@boiglenoight We all have functions we're missing, I'm not happy there is no draft folder for example. But the point is, although the app isn't perfect and it has way to grow, there are some things better than the birdie and the overall feeling of this app is something many people appreciate I bealive.
NoGodsUnderStars@mayaisloading I've heard #Hive is another one of the options on the table right now and.... it just looks like the Bird site? And the creators are just asking people to trust them, I guess, that they just want old social media back?
Like, give it 10 years and if it's successful enough, it won't matter what they want after they sell it lol. The centralized structure seems the same, so I feel like there's a lesson to be learned 🤷♂️
@Oli_Son The desensitized structure has one big crack as well: everyone could make a doppelganger account of yours on another surver and noone would know it's not you. That being said, all the other platforms are work in progress and I bealive they will find different ways to deal with all the problems which are going to surface one after another.
eyrea 🇨🇦@mayaisloading @Oli_Son There is a way to self-verify if you have presence elsewhere online, like say a personal website. You should be able to find the info on your account profile settings.
Speaking of which, I just did that now 🤔
Jessica Stern@mayaisloading I like it better here. It’s quieter. I can hear and be heard. The other place hasn’t been like that for too long.
@blacksheepgenie yes!!!!
Janette Speyer@mayaisloading that’s about right
Brian Moakley@mayaisloading Twitter is the garbage dump we played at as kids. We'd find all sorts of cool things in the wreckage to show folks.
Maybe there'd be a dead animal that we'd fling at the popular kids playing the fridges still with doors.
Occasionally, we'd get mugged by the local troglodytes, and Earl, the abnormal dog catcher who always smelled of pee would bore us with his conspiracies about being micro-chipped.
Now at Mastodon, we look back fondly as we deal with the lingering hepatitis.
Ann Jarvis@mayaisloading Exactly how I feel
Rusty@mayaisloading Let's make sure it Never becomes like Twitter. The difference is important in many ways!
cathylearner 🌹🌱🚴♀️🐘@mayaisloading that’s me! 🐘🥰
Bob Smith
A L Katz@mayaisloading Hear, hear! Life without the #algorithm is wonderful!
@@mayaisloading True Story!
Dewi Ioan@mayaisloading
I have seen this described as how people thought twitter worked, but after a while realized it really didn't work like that ...
Then they joined mastodon and realised it worked how they thought twitter worked when they first joined
I have seen this described as how people thought twitter worked, but after a while realized it really didn't work like that ...
Then they joined mastodon and realised it worked how they thought twitter worked when they first joined
Dadpocalypsenow
Jonathan-FL 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸⚛️💙@mayaisloading - My personal experience is quite different from that. In comparing the pre-Musk Twitter with Fediverse/Mastodon, I find some similarities and some differences. Of the differences, I personally find half to be improvements, and the other half to be steps backward. The more time I spend here, the more rough spots I find that weren't an issue at first. I really hope that over time the technology and the policies/"norms" here improve.
Hbardell@mayaisloading doesn't it though
Alison BOOK@mayaisloading
My husband .. been with #mastodon for a while kept encouraging me to ditch the bird... so glad I did!
My husband .. been with #mastodon for a while kept encouraging me to ditch the bird... so glad I did!
Susan Rink Olsen she/her@mayaisloading
This is true!😊 💙
This is true!😊 💙
Ted_Cville@mayaisloading yep, way less toxicity!
Zorro Notorious MEB 😡@mayaisloading Yes, there are some key philosophical and user interfaces differences between the birdsite and Mastodon. And Mastodon appears to be handling the influx of migrants well.
What we need to remember, though, is that *all* internet sites can be attacked by high-volume ne'er-do-wells and we need to be prepared. MuskmElon in the most recent step of such an attack on Twitter but he is not the first.
Laurie S@mayaisloading Mastodon is fun!
Ursa@mayaisloading that it bears a striking resemblance to a cult?
@UrsaAshBear That's one way to put it.
Spud_Coolzip@mayaisloading
Stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome.