Mastodawn

It’s officially been over 3 years since I’ve started on Mastodon. Rather then talk about what’s so great I figured I’d just list stuff I haven’t seen:

- I haven’t had any posts from people I don’t follow

- I haven’t been served ads for items I’ve spoke about near my phone or for that matter any ads at all

- I haven’t been served random articles similar to one article I clicked on out of curiosity like two years ago

- I haven’t been asked to upgrade or subscribe to anything

- I haven’t had AI shoved down my throat or have had AI slop dumped on me.

- I do not have bot accounts randomly messaging me

It’s better here and I don’t know why anyone would go anywhere else ..

#mastodon #socialmedia #meow

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Khleedril Feb 12

@64bithero I have to point out that some people receive serious, life-degrading abuse, and server admins can have a hard time keeping things sane. Still, it is better here for most people than anywhere else. Great that you point up the positives!

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Karen E. Lund 💙💛

@khleedril @64bithero Always a risk when humans are involved, unfortunately.

But we do have more control here than other social media platforms. Imagine if, when Musk bought Twitter, we could have decided that we liked the platform and switched to an instance with a better moderator?

To those who have suffered abuse: report and block widely; switch to a better instance; and you are welcome to mention me. I'm not an Admin or moderator, but I'll do whatever I can to help.