Jason KoeblerOct 20, 2023

I wrote about my first two months on Mastodon. I was a Mastodon hater because I thought it would be weird, complicated, or dead. It's been none of those things.

I'm ashamed I didn't join earlier and I'm ashamed I haven't been telling people to join it, because it's a version of the internet and social media I've long advocated for with my reporting: decentralized, portable, user controlled, not corporate:

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

Mastodon Is the Good One

Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

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Show threadJustin Stanley
@jasonkoebler You're right, of course. The luster will disappear from Threads and Bluesky as soon as they start to enshittify them, as they inevitably will.
Oct 20, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadMr. Scam LikelyOct 20, 2023

@jdst258 @jasonkoebler yep, I expect everyone not on fedi to keep shit talking it forever, as it keeps growing at a frankly unacceptably slow rate no investor would tolerate, while various redditors keep trying to "help" by proposing ways we could be more like twitter because we "have to" if we want to "beat them."

By the time a few more diggs/reddits rise and fall, we might end up being the plurality of active users?