James PoniewozikA lot of Mastodon advice I’m seeing seems to be geared toward “How to replicate your Twitter experience” or “Can Mastodon replicate your Twitter experience?”
But… I don’t WANT to replicate my Twitter experience. 1/more
My Twitter experience was kinda bad for me! It was good for a long time, but it was also bad. I’m not talking about the takeover by Captain 420, or people tweeting mean things at me. I mean the constantly feeling like a exposed nerve. The “let me show you this awesome new thing to be mad about!”
I love, for instance, that Mastodon doesn’t have the equivalent of a QT. There are plenty other platforms to do the “Hey, look at this asshole here” thing. The, “Does this smell bad to you?” thing. /2
And I’m happy with having fewer followers. No offense to my Twitter followers! But if you were around long enough and built enough numbers, you had a lot of followers who really shouldn’t be following you. People who followed you for, like, one snarky tweet you wrote in 2015, and then you spent the next seven years disappointing them by doing something else. /3
Dave Nemetz@poniewozik Ha! Yes! 1800 followers there, and I regularly interacted with about 25 of them.