David Gerard (@[email protected])

mastodon is the social network for people who have a preferred linux distro

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the thing about mastodon being the social network for progressives with a favorite Linux distro,

Bluesky being the social network for shitposters who have no qualms about being horny on main, and

Threads being for people who just want to personal brand at you

…is that each one is a whole lot of their respective most dominant kind of content

@mimsical This fragmentation of social networks is the best thing that could have happened.

So who are TikTok, Facebook, Insta, and Snap for?

@Dogzilla teens and teen adjacents, boomers, elder millennials, junior millennials
@mimsical @Dogzilla that's like everyone lol
@natriumchloride @mimsical @Dogzilla respectively... Every different platform has their group (usually in a new platform = younger target, when 'teh oldz' move in, move on)
@mimsical X is for solipsists because the only person you can be sure you are talking to is yourself, everybody else being a bot.
@mimsical it’s why I really miss Twitter. Constantly going between platforms is annoying, and it’s a leading reason why I don’t post as much. I guess that’s the real trick to breaking social media addiction: create platforms for specific uses that ultimately drive people away because it’s all … too much.
@joshsternberg @mimsical good! Before this whole thing, I averaged around several hours on Twitter alone. Now, I spend 30 minutes at most!
@joshsternberg @mimsical My goal is to just get rid of them all except mastodon, email and signal. I'm 15 or so years from retirement. Almost all my interests are tech, gardening and travel so those three places are great places to chat about those things.
@mimsical there is some crossover. Jorst.horse is most certainly a shit posting horny on main mastodon instance with a preferred Linux distro.
@mimsical An instance maybe, but this is the first post this year *I’ve* seen that mentions Linux.
Last year someone else posted a similar post to yours.
I honestly think of this as public posting. Like public email.
Ymmv as ever 😊
@mimsical eh, I remember times when fedi was the place where shitposters were horny on main. Good old times.
@rysiek @mimsical honestly if your timeline doesn't look like this it's a skill issue
@rysiek @mimsical misskey is pretty horny based off the quantity and variety of smut I've seen posted there

@mimsical "Bluesky // no qualms about being horny on main”

Oh good, I thought it was just me who noticed that 😅

@mimsical that explains why threads feels so….sterile?

Also, Fedora

@mimsical C'mon some of us are hotter than this implies...
@mimsical I have several but definitely one in particular, @zorinos
@mimsical it's true, when you sign up, you have to prove that you know how to exit VIM to make an account. 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
@mimsical I don't even use linux 😎
@mimsical mastodon can also be for shitposters who didn't receive an invite for blue sky.
@mimsical its true, i prefere fedora but i use nixos btw
@mimsical do people who are relentless distro hoppers count?
@mimsical — hey, I resemble that remark!
@mimsical
i run a few servers always used linux /unix ubuntu , my first programming was cpm fore runner to dos . then fortran cobal .
@mimsical idk, I think it might also be for people that see Linux so much at work that they really don't want to think about it on social media.
@mimsical @riamaria
Hahahaha! This joke is about you nerds, not me. I use OpenBSD.
@mimsical Mastodon is one of the social networks of all time
@mimsical I dunno. I like Mastodon but run both Fedora and Ubuntu at home, and CentOS at work.
@mimsical Well - lots of Mac users here... so maybe if you change it to Linux or UNIX that would cover it. 😁
@mimsical I don't have a FAVORITE. It's a tie between Linux Mint and Raspberry Pi OS.
Intelligent people with an attitude towards software freedom. That is, why I like it. 😬
@mimsical I'm a Mac user and the last time I used a Linux distro was so long ago.... the last distro I used was #ElementaryOS... I miss Linux from time to time though.

@mimsical God, I mean, he's not wrong.

... Arch btw

@mimsical who else is reading this on their preferred linux distro?? 😭️
@mimsical This means I should move to pleroma or something.
@mimsical I was just at a thirtieth birthday party for Debian last week.
@mimsical I didn't know mastodon had ads for itself
@mimsical As opposed to people that'll just run any Linux?
@mimsical Birds of a feather, yada yada yada.