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?

404 Media
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@jasonkoebler the cool thing about community-owned technology like ActivityPub and Mastodon is you don’t have to join right away if you don’t want to. We aren’t going anywhere and the golden age will only last longer. Whenever a new user is ready we will be here with room to spare.
Oct 20, 2023 at 3:30pmWeb