HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why?  

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. 

#feditips #fediverse

> Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Defrauding Theranos Investors of Hundreds of Millions

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/elizabeth-holmes-sentenced-more-11-years-defrauding-theranos-investors-hundreds-millions

Note that Holmes is going to prison because she made rich people slightly less rich, not because of the harm she did to patients

(Edited for clarity)

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

1) Hard to figure out what instance to join -> forced to actually think about and put effort into joining a proper community, instead of "going with the flow"
2) Hard to find people to follow, "DM to follow" -> fewer randos finding you, the few connections made are more meaningful
3) Harder to verify accounts, fewer tools for institutional pages -> interact more with people like you, instead of celebrities and large projects and brands
4) Harder to reach large audiences, fragmented environment -> fewer "influencers", less commercial relations, less competing for clout
5) No filtering, no recommendations, no "algorithm", lot of work to make the timeline good -> no one has (too much) control over what you see, encourages you to actively curate your follows

tl;dr, The things that take work encourage you to do at least the bare minimum to keep things good, which you otherwise might not think or have the discipline to do