Mastodawn

Fade Feb 5, 2023

Is the sudden drop in traffic on my timeline here lately because people are wandering away from Mastodon again, or because of defederation, or because of DDOS attacks? Whoooo knows? Sigh.

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Fade Feb 5, 2023

I am extremely fond of Mastodon. I want to hang out here for a good long time. But I'm seeing a lot of my friends quietly detach from this place because there's so much "here are the etiquette rules for this tea shop, I can't believe you didn't lift your pinky" going around that, well, who has the energy for that these days?

I cope by just ignoring most of that, but then, I've got no following or public career to worry about.

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Turhan's Bey Company Feb 5, 2023

@fade I hardly ever come here because the bulk of the people I want to keep an eye on didn't make the move, but fallout from the etiquette and politics, however valid they may be, are becoming just as much an obstacle to casual use.

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Fade

@turhansbeycompany Sigh. Yes. And I just discovered that if an instance where I follow people (and vice versa) blocks mine, even if they unblock... all of the follows between them suddenly break. And there's NO ALERT TO IT. So there's no way for me to know that people I follow are still posting, and I could be following them, but I'm not anymore. Or vice versa. Argh!