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Jim AcostaJust signed up for Mastodon. Hope it doesn’t become a dumpster fire like twitter. This feels like that movie where the humans have to go find another planet suitable for life after messing things up on earth.
Rebecca M. TownsendWelcome.
Nashveggie@acosta Glad to see you here!
DrumpfFree@acosta Mastodon has been a breath of fresh air! No worries. Welcome!
Corrie Hulse@acosta welcome!
Robot Taylor@acosta Welcome, Jim.
We have a nifty thing going here -- thanks for joining in.
A note: "boosts" are the way we share posts with our followers (likes are only shared with the poster, as G_d intended lol).
Lots of people have feelings about "CW" (content warnings).
Basically, though, it's more chill here.
Latchkeyme@acosta Elon’s Mars
@acosta an honor to join you on Mastodon on the same night!
juicyfizz@acosta it’s not so bad once you get used to it! Download the tooot iOS/android app if you don’t like the OG mastodon one
Chaos@juicyfizz @acosta I started using the native mobile web browser and it's great. And the advanced view on desktop.
Robin@chaos @juicyfizz @acosta the typeface on the native mobile web browser is a bit too small for me 😜 so I use the Tusker app for iOS on my iPhone
Anne Carin@chaos @acosta @annecarin9 @juicyfizz there are things I like and don’t like about each of the apps. But it works much better for me with an app because I can switch between, home, local and federated much more easily. And Tusker shows trending posts and hashtags.
@Chimaera @acosta @annecarin9 @juicyfizz I used tusky and Pinafore. Both great but mobile browser has been more robust
Give_Me_Coffee@acosta @juicyfizz haven’t tried tooot, using metatext and enjoy it.
Steve Umstead@acosta Welcome aboard! I think you’ll find some really great engagement here. And far fewer Nazis.
Andi@steveumstead @acosta definitely fewer nazis
Grandpa Don@theandil
i am reminded several times a day of the line in The Blues Brothers:
"I hate Illinois nazis"
:)
i am reminded several times a day of the line in The Blues Brothers:
"I hate Illinois nazis"
:)
Majestic_Sloth
Ajwseven@acosta welcome aboard!
Angie@acosta woohoo! Welcome!
Chema Hernández GilIt would be very, very hard because Mastodon (actually the fediverse) isn't a single place. Maybe some instances/servers could, but it would take a calamity for it to happen to every single instance. It is a different paradigm.
Chema Hernández Gil :verifiable: (@[email protected])
Let the last few weeks—and particularly the last few hours—be a lesson to anyone considering joining Post, Hive or any corporate social network walled garden: What is happening to Twitter can happe...
Mathieu Fenniak@acosta Spoiler alert: it has its dumpster fire moments. But as it's run by many communities, at least there is choice and hope for constant improvement. ☺️
Luke P@acosta Just hope there is nothing lurking below the surface of this planet
Christina Zacker 
Escarpment@acosta The hope is the "it" here is very different in "it becomes a dumpster fire." With Twitter, the "it" was a corporation that has been bought. Here, the "it" is a loose federation of computers running open source software.
I suppose, however, to some extent email is a dumpster fire: spam; every store you've ever patronized emailing you til eternity; not as user friendly as chat. The mastodon protocol could become a dumpster fire like that I suppose.
🇨🇦Gord🇳🇿🇺🇦 
@acosta i followed you on the bird site, and I'm glad you've come over to the Mastodon side!
Jeanne Apelseth@acosta Nice to see you. It’s much nicer here!
Nitin B@acosta welcome! Better Mastodon than Mars.
Alison Braun@acosta saw your twitter post. Welcome.
JH@acosta Welcome to the party pal!
Rainwolf /ᵔᴥᵔ\
MrGoatee@acosta Welcome. Feels calmer here. It’s been a good change. Glad you’re here
TerranIVTo be fair, it was just a one human who completely burned Twitter to the ground. It was taking on water quite slowly for a long time before Musk lost his mind and tried to drag the whole world down with him.
Ed FriesIt was just one man: Elon Musk. Who else would it be?
I disagree with that narrative. Twitter had it's problems, but it wasn't a dystopian authoritarian nightmare like it has become this week.
Before Musk, Twitter was trying to be a social network, now it is Musk's private dictatorship.
Jacqueline Dooley@acosta Hello and welcome!! Mastodon can't become like Twitter for reasons that someone smarter than me can explain. I suspect it'll be a layover for some (big media) personalities to get your bearings until something more Twitter-like emerges. Nevertheless, in glad you're here for now.
Trevor Bramble@acosta Ah yes, those always turn out well for the humans.
Alex@acosta the future of social media is decentralization. you can block entire servers of people, it's just much better.
eigenman 
Nephryn@acosta The good part is that if your server here becomes a dumpster fire, you can just hop over to another one within the federation.
Welcome! And enjoy the new smileys!
Welcome! And enjoy the new smileys!
Julaine Nickels@acosta welcome!
Ody@acosta
No one owns Mastodon, so no billionaire can fuck it up.
No one owns Mastodon, so no billionaire can fuck it up.
Tim Fisher 🇺🇸@Ody @acosta Each instance on Mastodon has its own rules and management. Companies/media can create their own instances and manage them as they see fit. No billionaire can buy Mastodon. You can buy an instance and ruin it, but the people there can migrate their accounts/followers to a new instance any time they don't like the direction their current Mastodon instance is going.
RupertG@acosta It's a bit quiet on here, but Musk's doing such good work on the marketing...
KarynDocWelcome and what a cute dog! I'm told if one follows @donmelton all will be well.
Lulu@acosta I've only been here 2 weeks but I've never seen anyone arguing.
No name-calling.
Just lots of enthusiast help for whatever your interests are, Jim.
I just posted a very nice recipe for Tahini scones for two.
Hah. 😅
You'll be fine💕
Red@acosta I just migrated here myself. Welcome and congrats on being one of the first people I've followed!
@acosta oh yeah. You can edit after posting! 🙌
Rαhul Bhαdαni@acosta Jim, have your posts include hashtags of the trending topics for other users to find you.
Concernedcitizen@acosta Welcome! Important voice. 🥃
Andi 🌻 Last@acosta not humans. Just musk.
Welcome.
@acosta Welcome aboard!