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:
@jasonkoebler couldn't agree more.
Helping people get onto a server is the best way to reduce friction for those you encourage to join IMO. Curious to see what a Mozilla server will mean for the ecosystem. Hopefully every other platform is pushed towards interoperability.
Also some really cool experiments happening around community governance and moderation like this: https://cosocial.ca/about
@monkeyflower this is cool.
honestly, Elk.Zone, which makes Mastodon look like Twitter, helped me a lot. Also has easy account switching, which is key because I am running the 404 Media Mastodon as well.
The thing I've realized is I can start using the more complicated features as I naturally learn about them, if I want to. Or I can just not.
Jason Koebler
🦋 Ben West - 🐒🌻
Thierna