Joan VT
God 
Americans can help defeat a fascist billionaire oligarchy with the choices they make but instead are like “choosing a server is too hard!!” 😩
Yugoboy@godpod First you gotta convince enough people he's a fascist and an oligarch.
Applewise
ReallyCanadianFly@godpod you've nailed it God!
Suzanne@godpod Does it do any good to block advertisers on Twitter?
April Wine@srpainter I think it does.
Sbonet@godpod it's just like picking a life partner... you just know when you see the one you want! 😉 
NickKauf 
hey let's all EVERYONE get together on the tower of babel server!
alcinnz@godpod When approaching individuals about this, I'd recommend endorsing a particular server alongside the fediverse!
When talking to large groups things are harder...
Dylan Hall@godpod somehow the same people switched from yahoo mail, to hotmail, to gmail without ever thinking email is unusable
@dylanhall @godpod plenty of people are still @yahoo…
Nathan Carpenter@godpod maybe we just need to start naming more servers with names like patriotface.mcawesome ?
Caleb BrownI just picked one pretty randomly. Started by finding a few people I knew from the other place. Went through their follows and found more of my old follows at the bird site. And now I have a great feed and zero bullshit.
It really is that easy folks.
cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴@godpod I think more that is it difficult to end an abusive relationship. Battered Wife syndrome? Maybe Stockholm syndrome?
A Reformed Pastafarian@godpod if you had used Agile rather than waterfall when you started to design us, you could've caught this bug much earlier. Just saying.
Kevin Karhan 
David Ahrens
Akhenatobi & Meritaten etc.@godpod to people in the future signing up for twitter saying to themselves, “but, I don’t want to be a douchebag, is there anything better?”
Yes, I say… there are options.
I just saw evidence, infuriating proof that Elon has lost his f*cking mind.
Northbaybanter@godpod I recommend Steven. He was friendly, got our orders right and served our table quickly.
LinaB@godpod I remember them trying to change to metric😂😂
@godpod it is not exactly intuitive. I’m not sure, no I know I don’t understand it. For a not tech person Mastodon is not straightforward and not gonna happen until it is.
So making fun of people who don’t understand something which others see as simple will not promote your cause. 45 yrs in Chemical Industry has taught me, “If you can’t explain it to you aging mother who was a average house wife (mine was). Your technology isn’t as cool and useful as much as you think.”
So making fun of people who don’t understand something which others see as simple will not promote your cause. 45 yrs in Chemical Industry has taught me, “If you can’t explain it to you aging mother who was a average house wife (mine was). Your technology isn’t as cool and useful as much as you think.”
Alex@godpod for some people, it really is too hard. My mom is still trying to figure out how to set the clock on the VCR she got in 1988. We should just have a server that we tell people, just use this one and it'll be fine.
Jenni Merrifield 🍓🇨🇦@alexwagner @godpod
Yeah, along with the caveat that they can always switch servers in the future without losing the connections they've sissy made.
I've started just pointing people at the one I joined.
@godpod not just Americans.
@godpod so true!
Bread Dude@godpod Remember... You can pick Mastodon. And you can pick your server. But you can't pick your friend's nose.
Kenny Kravitz@godpod What you've gotta remember is that they might be billionaire fascist oligarchs one day, in which case holding billionaire fascist oligarchs to account becomes self-defeating.
SSFC KDT (MOVED)@godpod Ugh. Kill me. SMH doesn't do my emotional response to that sentiment justice.
This goes back to my argument from November with someone with a rose in their twitter name who was like "not interested in that libertarian nonsense"
LazarusZed@godpod most people just use social media to argue about silly topics (such as politics...) or minding other people's business.
Many people are just "reactive", making a choice is too hard a choice for them.
Malda Q Bashi
ANDO 
@godpod it makes me sometimes unironicly sad how lazy people are these days when it comes to there digital live and online privacy and stuff like that. Will all these things are not actually that hard when invest like 5 minutes and a internet search
@godpod I was wondering (because I'm not tech savvy) if there should just be one created for the left? Would take some of the confusion out. I just chose one my favorite media personalities were using.
Savah Rellcast@godpod more like choosing a server isn't clear. There's no instructions, it's all vague hand waving and hazy gestures. No one can spell it out.
Romaqhttps://twitter.com/McPoyle/status/1604595646371184641?t=vZyUTK8M2kKXK1a_q3Uuuw&s=19
I tried to make the same point about how it was a pain to pick an email server, too confusing, ultimately doomed to fail.
Sorry, the point could not be connected.
infernal_barry@godpod but clearly they have not been able to defeat an oligarchy because it is still in power because the "choices" they have are two sides of the same coin.
gungken@godpod Your right about Twitter being a billionaire oligarchy, but fascist? Elon Musk is a rightist no doubt, but I don't think he's politically a far-right, authoritarian, militarist.
@godpod The one thing that could be improved is the permission prompt on the mobile app. Make it clear it is asking for permission for the Mastodon account. The first time I read it I thought it was asking for permission for the phone's pictures and messages.
Other than that getting started with the Mastodon mobile app is super easy.
@godpod
Very techie people are on multiple servers and some even have a tick for one, yet not for the account from which they post.
Even they had to take multiple runs at it.
Incoming savvy users who’ve never looked at mastodon might first wonder why they have to choose, then they start to understand that they don’t want to pick a server that ain’t all that, nor overburden some poor server admin who didn’t expect such a workload, then they learn about mastodon.social, but get rejected.
They look at other servers and begin to realise they don’t want to pick a server they don’t identify with or maybe they even have a bit of imposter syndrome about it.
Or perhaps that was just me…
LaStrega@godpod Tbf, they're not great at that either.
Cevin@godpod oof. Called out 😬
The Pelagic Streetlights@godpod I don't feel great about shaming people for their anxieties about moving to a new platform. I feel even less great about shaming people in the name of God.
Egg@godpod god seems to take quite an interest in Americans
Paranoid FactoidDearest Lord, my savory, I beseech you to please make Kraft Fluff in Chocolate and Strawberry (artificially flavored)™ as well as traditional. Also, please be gentle to Elon. If you give him pestilence, he'll think himself Job. And finally, please make pizza and beer free to all Mastodon devs. A-men!
Coming Up Violets!@godpod Hey. I deleted my Twitter and THEN I said “choosing a server is too hard.”
Cousin Paddy@godpod Lollipop Guild dooms The Land of Oz by turning over control to the best and brightest.
@devinprater @godpod Lots of my family love Elon Musk and keep saying he supports free speech. I try to tell them about him banning talk of other social media platforms, but they say things like, "Would you want someone coming to your bar and advertising other competing bars, stealing your customers in the process?" I said, "It's not free speech if you're going to delete tweets and ban people, no matter what they're talking about." They still don't get it.
@godpod wouldn't it be hilarious if Twitter decided to switch to ActivityPub and was compatible with Mastodon?
Baratazana@godpod Or even worse. I have neighbors who are tech workers on a visa. They are following the misery Musk is unleashing on the Twitter workers and that could affect them at any moment. Their current hot topic? Oooh Teslas are coming down in price! Time to buy!
Way to go, throwing your brother (and possibly yourself) under the bus for a shitty car.
@godpod Sounds like the former Master is jelly of the new Masters.
Voradams 
@godpod still, better than choosing which window to throw a Russian oligarch out of.
JakeVortex@godpod As they say,
you can only server one mastodon
you can only server one mastodon
Fenix🔥 Resistance Starts NOW@godpod Just smite the dumbasses & be done with them
Cabernet Theist@godpod bloody hell have’nt you frozen that lot yet or is that you are favouring the nationalists to keep those sweet tax free coffers full
Madam Sassy Face@godpod America in a nutshell
David Ross Bacchetti@godpod BOYCOTT Everything the #EmeraldMuskRat touches!
Beyond that, if donald j. #TraitorTrump & elon #MuskRat are what RICH People have to offer,, it's far past time to Readjust Wealth
The Founding Fathers taxed the shit out of corporate America to avoid the consequences
Youssef | يوسف@godpod People these days worship convenience above everything else
JamminJ@godpod why do you sound like a narcissistic jerk?
JonathanOz@godpod I’m here, but it is a bit convoluted.