David Kay#twitterdown anyone have a basic tutorial on how to use Mastodon now that we’ve all be forced off Twitter?
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There are a few reasons.
First of all, we just can not be on the one. There is no "the one". Twitter has the one, and when the owner decides to fuck it up, you end with an apocalypse. Everyone who relied on it to make money, lost their income. Everyone who relied on it to share news, lost their audience, and so on.
Each server is like a small twitter that talks to each other, so if yours decides to fuck up, you can decide to leave and take your data with you.
There are ways to royally fuck up. Your admin can decide to allow racism and shit. But users can just leave, and other admins can decide to not talk to that one.
But you might also just not like the rules or the features of the server. Or maybe it has been blocked by other servers you really want to talk with.
Maybe you notive your server name is stupid. Like cim is short for creativity, innovation and something. But it in some cases also means "cum in mouth" :D, so someone might understandably want a different address to give to their contacts.
Then there is the fact that this is not "mastodon" we are in. This is "fediverse", where mastodon is just one type of server that talks with all the others. Mastodon is not the only twitter type software here, and you do not know which one I use unless you check my server. I could be using something like Instagram or something like Youtube even.
And really, it is also a way to divide the costs. Hobbyists can easily have a cheap server that hosts some users. But if there was just one server, it would have to be huge, or a huge server building thing even. Who can afford that? We do not have ads here. Twitter is not profitable. Reddit is not profitable... Social media tends to not be profitable even with ads.
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