A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
I see many of us have landed upon the very best healthiest social media user experience possible: all of us existing simultaneously on six or seven different platforms, waving our hands in the dark hoping to find each other again, and quivering with FOMO like a bunch of shaved chihuahuas.
Jul 8, 2023 at 10:15amMastodon for iOS
Show threadDave AckleyJul 8, 2023
@JuliusGoat circling circling circling
until the music stops
Show threadIkaniJul 8, 2023
@JuliusGoat honestly, I'm here and I'm pretty happy. Most of my friends are here. A lot of the larger accounts I used to follow (like yours) are here.
Show threadDaniel BrotherstonJul 8, 2023
@JuliusGoat I haven't...I ditched FB years ago, never used Insta or TikTok...I jumped off Twitter and landed here, and I'm half way to dumping reddit. I'll never pickup BS or threads or whatever bullshit billionaires want to sell me tomorrow.
Show threadCaptBobbersJul 8, 2023
@danbrotherston @JuliusGoat
If you're thinking about leaving Reddit, have you given Lemmy a try?
Show threadAsh DoyleJul 8, 2023
@JuliusGoat @jamie What are shaved chihuahuas afraid of missing out on?
Show threadJamie BoothJul 8, 2023

@ashkendo
@JuliusGoat

Funny memes I would assume....

Show threadAsh DoyleJul 8, 2023
@jamie @JuliusGoat
Show threadAutobotanistJul 8, 2023
@JuliusGoat not me, I just got banned from Reddit. I never fucked with Facebook or Twitter to begin with. I really like the vibe here so much dissent and a lot of academics.
Show threadAbhishek BolarJul 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat This is beautifully written. I am here to learn English tbh. I think I am in the right platform
Show threadLegionJul 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat You say that like it's a bad thing.
Show threadDobviewsJul 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat I think I must be the last person in the world not to experience FOMO. Is that good/bad or just show my apathy for 90% of the internet?
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jul 9, 2023
@appagalcrochet Oh man, you've never experienced FOMO? You'd better hurry up and experience it before it's all gone.
Show threadDobviewsJul 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat Meh, sounds like a waste of energy. I see it as enticing as watching a dog take a 💩. (Goes back to recording crochet video.)
Show threadGuerillaGrueJul 9, 2023

@JuliusGoat

Eh.

Call me a weirdo, but I've always felt the strength of social media like Mastodon wasn't the ability to keep up with select folks you're already familiar with, but the ability to explore brand new horizons of strange and colorful people you may have never encountered otherwise.

I know all of maybe 5-6 folks I follow/am followed by on here IRL (or from elsewhere online.) Pretty much everyone else is "hey, they look neato mosquito, I'ma check 'em out," and that's just awesome.

Show threadRudyJul 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat Exactly!
Show threadIggyJul 10, 2023
@JuliusGoat I have accounts on all of them, but post my cat pictures here, which definitively makes it "home".