Mastodawn

Flash Mob Of One Mar 1

@smallcircles Cozy village, mostly.

Having non-standard opinions on some things sometimes gets me into tussles with people, but that's very rare as I'm quick to block people who are jerks or don't approach in good faith.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.Mar 1

@smallcircles To me the fediverse feels like an accidental but useful overlap of only-slightly-convergent universes – a region where aliens can go to communicate with each other before returning to their own dimensions.

(Really, that's how it feels. How else would you describe a place where antipodean flaneurs can hold convos with Dutch furries about toaster repair?)

@msbellows I like that. Thanks for your input.

Mastodon Migration Mar 1

@msbellows @smallcircles

Like Meetpoint Station from CJ Cherryh's Pride of Chanur

tootbrute Mar 1

@mastodonmigration @msbellows @smallcircles the pride of ChanUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR.

love that song.

Wierci Mar 1

Like a huge self-sufficient green agglomeration of cities with cozy places all around

Kadsepfösch Mar 1

@smallcircles A city.

There's too much different stuff for a village. :)
Also the Left and tbe Green party of my country are here which would sadly be pretty unusual for a small village in my parts.

AutistiCritic Mar 1

@smallcircles @Tattooed_Mummy …a bustling convention about topics I don’t fully understand and I’m the only one not cosplaying. 😰

Oblomov Mar 1

@benjamincox @smallcircles @Tattooed_Mummy hot damn I hope you find your people here

AutistiCritic Mar 1

@oblomov @smallcircles @Tattooed_Mummy I’ve found some. If I were better at socialising, it would help. 🙂

@benjamincox @oblomov @Tattooed_Mummy

You are doing well, and attracted a sizable village to be part of together, looking at your profile. Thank you for your input.

Marcus (testet Sharkey)Mar 1

@smallcircles
Tangled street cafe

Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)Mar 1

@smallcircles Like a massive space habitat where beings of all types from everywhere in the universe come and go as they please, and are permitted to Just Be.

Rather like Iain M. Banks' Culture civilisation, but less manipulative.

Arthur van der Harg Mar 1

@smallcircles Something like the Deep Space 9 space station.

Ian K Tindale Mar 1

@smallcircles definitely a Other

Nelfaneor 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 🫏✒️♏〽️🟤Mar 1

@smallcircles
Some kind of gathering camp somewhere along the Mediterranean coast with lots of mindful people aiming to build a new harbour where endless progressive evolution will be possible.

A.A. Delafin Mar 1

@smallcircles a sane asylum

Jimmy Mar 1

@smallcircles A metropolis; I was born in London, not far from the Docks, and my MastoNerds are all different people unlike the sausagemeat populace of Meta etc. There are quiet corners and bustling thoroughfares here for choosing where you are comfortable.

Crowjane Mar 1

@smallcircles
You know how Charles Shultz let us know that happiness is playing the drum in your own school band? It’s like that.

jz.tusk Mar 1

College dorm, freshman year.

Various freak flags are fully let fly, and there's a lot of "OMG you too? I thought I was the only one."

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Mar 1

@smallcircles Thriving Garden

RolloTreadway Mar 1

@smallcircles Fedi (feeee diiiiii) is coming like a ghost town. All the clubs have been closed down.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking

@RolloTreadway thank you.

That poses the question if that is just at the town where you are at, or all across the fediverse countryside.

The analogy with towns, villages and cities breaks down here. On the fediverse we have this social fabric we weave ourselves that determines the city or village we want to live in. By carefully curating our own following and followers. I call this Personal social networking..

It would be an interesting experiment if by doing some curation and turning it into habit to garden your connections, you can arrive again in the village or city that is to your preferences.

How We Reimagine the Social Web

We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.

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RolloTreadway Mar 2

@smallcircles I'm sorry. I was making a joke reference to the Specials song Ghost Town. My brain mostly thinks in songs.

@RolloTreadway ah, nice. I did not know that song, ha ha.

@smallcircles @RolloTreadway
https://lankum.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-town

Tim Mar 2

Ghost Town, by Lankum

1 track album

Lankum

@seufz @RolloTreadway

Nice. They certainly nailed the atmosphere. Listening now.

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur Mar 1

@smallcircles
I experience the Fediverse as a stimulating conversation by witty, engaged, interesting, and often atypical people.

Darby M. Dixon III Mar 1

@smallcircles aimless road trip

@darby3 in a good way, though? In an extracting-myself-from-the-ratrace casual walk kinda way perhaps?

Jenny Fx Mar 1

@smallcircles The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe.

PrinceOfDenmark Mar 3

@urbanfoxe @smallcircles Yeah we’re definitely due for the Gnab Gib.

SlightlyCyberpunk Mar 1

@smallcircles Mine's gotten a bit *too* busy...so I've started muting the folks who never add alt text :)

Duckbilled Plattypus.Mar 1

@smallcircles A strange fascinating party with lots of different pods with wildly different conversations or lectures or readings or music or gallery shows or cooking or comedies or what have you all going on, and everyone welcomes you in.

Nelfaneor 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 🫏✒️♏〽️🟤Mar 2

@pattykimura

This is not far from my own experience but I would just add the Fediverse is obviously supposed to generate other places of interest with new unknown forces and expressions.

So, to my previous description with an analogy to the harbour, https://gotosocial.social/@nelfan/statuses/01KJN0JGW7EES2ANFKWBB0ZRJF, I would add this is obviously a starting point for those who have good ideas to go further and find other convenient places to build new harbours.

@smallcircles

Nelfaneor 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 🫏✒️♏〽️🟤 (@[email protected])

@smallcircles Some kind of gathering camp somewhere along the Mediterranean coast with lots of mindful people aiming to build a new harbour where endless progressive evolution will be possible.

gotosocial.social

CubeOfCheese Mar 1

@smallcircles agora. It's not where everyone is at, but it is concentrated and focused and where important discussion is happening

🇨🇦 Little-k Mar 1

@smallcircles
A cozy village that has a too many idiots sometimes. But at least they're funny idiots.

Bill Sharpe Gadfly Mar 1

@OohOkayKay @smallcircles
Yes, all of us have mirrors, whatever our label is...
ohmrbill

🇨🇦 Little-k Mar 1

@OhMrBill @smallcircles

FOUND ONE!!
🤣 😂 🤣

Bill Sharpe Gadfly Mar 1

@smallcircles
Interacting digital planet for humans.
Bill

Kibrika Mar 1

@smallcircles My social bubble. It's cozy village + my interests + a few foreign eccentrics.

Simon Greenwood Mar 1

@smallcircles
Really odd party.

iced_spiders Mar 1

@smallcircles More like a train station or airport. I'm passing through and see many other people I wouldn't otherwise. Some people spend much more time here than others and it shows.

GLC Mar 1

Pedestrian zoned street with a bunch of cafes, in the downtown area of a polluted city.

@glc

A refuge from hectic life then? An quiet oasis to escape the surrounding social media traffic and unwind a bit?

GLC Mar 2

Not really. There are lively discussions going on in most, often involving politics, in particular. Some similarities with Vienna in 1933. More than one would like, but that's just because 2026 is more like 1933 than one would like.

In some of the cafes they are just playing chess, admittedly, but you make your rounds. Actually the most effective way to keep up with what is going on.

Occasionally a drunk has to be thrown out and someone is monologuing to himself in a corner,

@glc ah yes. I like your analogy, thank you.

Pottery by Osa Mar 1

@smallcircles digital subculture for nerds, weirdos and other misfits.

Frank Skornia Mar 1

@smallcircles I see it as a busy city with cozy neighborhoods.
I generally live in my home feed, so I'm really only seeing and interacting with what I aim to follow and the various communities there.
Occasionally I'll look at the public timeline and see all the bustle and activity but will find something new to follow, like going downtown and finding a new restaurant or hangout spot.

iwein Mar 1

@smallcircles underground rave

@iwein ha, I like that, thanks.

Ernst de Moor Mar 1

@smallcircles great source for news and regulations

Oblomov Mar 1

@smallcircles I went with village, but it actually sirens. Sometimes it is more of a city, with much more traffic than I can reasonably follow

Anthony David Mar 1

Interconnections of villages that I consciously and selectively build.

clawfulneutral Mar 1

@smallcircles DS9 Promenade / Star Wars Cantina

Dawn Ahukanna Mar 1

@smallcircles
Community of interest/hobby/makers pace with “coffee conversation”.

Geoff Duncan Mar 1

@smallcircles
I experience the fediverse a bit like riding public transit: often you meet interesting people, occasionally you meet hostile people, sometimes you meet people in crisis, and you have a nodding acquaintence with some folks almost every time you ride. Most people are buried in their phones. You hear bits of conversations (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot), the infrastructure is uneven and often confusing, and every now and again there is a flood, storm, fight, or someone pulling a weapon.

@geoffduncan an interesting analogy to common day to day life activities, thank you.