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Brianna WuA feature I really like about Mastadon is a billionaire hasn’t force fed me content from nutjobs and I can actually see the people I follow.
queenCapy@briannawu let us hope it will be like this forever on Mastadon
Eric Jennings@briannawu not trying to be snarky. Is there a reason you always spell it mastadon instead of mastodon?
Been genuinely wondering this about your posts for the last few months.
I've moved to @HitokiriEric I constantly make this mistake as well. Just how I pronounce it, I think. @briannawu
@willaful @briannawu yeah. It just seemed so deliberate after a while that I was wondering if it was an attempt to avoid searches or trying to make a statement like people intentionally misspelling Elon.
lucas 🎺@briannawu I agree that this is a fabulous feature of this platform. Now I just need to find that right mix of ppl to follow
Óscar Morales Vivó@theLUCASTDS @briannawu if you want eclectic exposure to a lot of cool boosts try following @lisamelton
Even if having that boost firehouse pointed at your feed is a bit too much it should help you find new follows.
Lisa Melton@MyLittleMetroid @theLUCASTDS @briannawu Thanks, as always, for the recommendation! 💖 And nice to run into you online. 🥰
@lisamelton @theLUCASTDS @briannawu I just mentioned you and now I’m getting several notifications a minute 😓
I can only imagine you Mastodon browsing setup must look like an old fashioned room full of computers with lots of little lights that blink on and off to deal with your traffic 🤣
Kurt Antonini@briannawu I strongly agree
Jeff Caldwell@briannawu @BigAngBlack
It's actually nice to talk to people here.
Those other networks had me thinking people had just shrunken into malicious, narcissistic little shits.
Glad I'm (kind of) wrong.
CJ the Awkward Lefty@briannawu but would you like it better if a billionaire force-fed you content from nut jobs and then made the entire platform stop loading after you’d scrolled for 10 minutes?
Rick Mycroft@briannawu Like Musk, I have total control over my own social media site, but it only cost me a few hours of my time.
He currently has more direct users, but I think I have the up-time advantage.
MikeZilla Minus OneWell said Brianna
schuss@briannawu I am loving that too. Choosing what I want to see and then just... seeing that.
No Fun Berg@briannawu And you can actually use it. I’m more of a lurker than a poster, it’s gonna be a while before I can get on Bluesky.
You need clout or connections to get an invite, I’m lacking both.
Maarten Pelgrim@briannawu we've worked hard to make it so, glad you like it:)
Peter Ellis@briannawu while the first of these objections makes sense, I don't understand the second , despite it being a common one. Using the 'Following' tab on Twitter, or its predecessors, always seemed to work for me if I wanted to see just people I followed.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@peter_ellis @briannawu I use Lists anywhere in order to see the topical people I want to see, atm.
When you follow enough people the home feed just becomes a firehose. Hellsite used to manage that better (sorta). Mastodon just lets it rip.
Scott the F is implicit Baxter@briannawu on #theOtherPlace, I click "notify" for everyone I follow, then only read notifications. No ads, no algorithm!
Hali@briannawu and every second post in my feed isn't from some fake store.
Valheru Rides@briannawu Less Nazis and more motorcycles.
Andreas K@briannawu It's called "net neutrality" or similar.
Basically, you ask the thing to get you an apple, and it delivers you an apple, or tries to deliver you an apple.
Because neither your mastodon server operator nor the fediverse have as such a hidden mission.
Now a site like dodo, is out to make money in the end. That implies also it is supposed to make analysts, investors, ad customers, etc happy.
So it needs as much as activity, so it guides its users for this purpose …
Profoundly Nerdy@briannawu And most people on Mastodon want to talk to each other. I've had some wonderful conversations about all kinds of things.
It's *almost* like #Usenet *before* #EternalSeptember.