Jon WorthJul 4, 2023

If you’re reading this toot there’s a pretty high chance you’ve asked yourself ethical questions about your social media use *and that’s why you’re here*

You’ve likewise probably got concerns about Meta and Threads

But the 90-odd % of your friends you left behind on Facebook, Insta etc. likely don’t have those concerns to the same extent as you

Mastodon has to win on user experience *as well as on ethics*. We can’t just berate the Meta users

Show threadKhaled Blah
@jon I'm here - instead of Twitter - because I don't like the idea of being used for a psychological experiment of a private company which tries to monetize my attention by riling me up against other users of their platform. So far, Mastodon is a much better "mental experience" even if the tech sometimes seems to be sub-par compared with others. The idea of the Fediverse - distributed networks with entities making up their own rules - is very powerful and has a lot of potential for growth.
Jul 4, 2023 at 9:42amWeb
Show threadKhaled BlahJul 4, 2023
@jon We just have to give enough time and probably will have to accept that others may prefer "single entity" platforms like Twitter or Threads.