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.
@thierna @jasonkoebler I used the Old TweetDeck on Twitter before Musk killed it. It was great. Mastodon's UI is awful - it's like if it was designed by someone who looked at TweetDeck once but never actually used it.
There is also MastoDeck but it, too, is nothing like what the Old TweetDeck was.
@bontchev @thierna @jasonkoebler
Have you tried the Ivory client? For me it is an even better Mastodon version of the legacy Tweetbot (same development team).
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