I don't really like this place but Twitter logged me out and won't even load the panel to log me back in (on multiple browsers) so where else can I complain about that, huh
Kim Sokol
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Fantasy illustrator. She/her. I just got here.
@GusHarrisReid I didn't get into playing MTG until post-college 2010ish so well before I played, but I'm in my mid 30s so I was def around at that time, just really getting into Pokemon cards :)
@melodymacabre I have my own webspace and even a spare domain name I'm not using and could theoretically host myself I think, but questions still stand - also wondering about security and the like. Also years ago I was with a large and apparently trustworthy host that just completely kicked it overnight, so shit happens. A bit of googling shows there have been past iterations with security vulnerabilities. Decentralization has big positives, but it's not without drawbacks too.
@The_Stitched Yeah, that'd be clearer, even the lack of an obvious "show thread" button and the fact you have to go into the little menu for it signals to me "we're not gonna stop you from chatting, but keep it to yourselves"
@melodymacabre man, the last reply was supposed to be to you, I deleted the wrong name lol
And yeah, I get it. Every new site is jank for a bit, and I'm generally not an early adopter. The decentralized structure seems to have advantages, but I still have unanswered questions - what if a server goes down or vanishes without warning? What if the admin goes rogue? What power does the server owner have over your data and privacy? I come from forum culture, I gotta know this stuff D:
@kosinus Thanks, looks like its mobile only tho. I keep my social media to my laptop alone for the sake of my sanity :)
@The_Stitched But see, it seems like no matter what you do there's nothing that says "there is a conversation going on in this thread" that's only exacerbated by unlisting replies. Like I said, I'm new here, I'm trying not to be too quick to judge, this is just my gut reaction first impression. My homes are twitter and sometimes tumblr, both of which are really good at "yes, and" and this place feels engineered to keep each post as isolated as possible.
@The_Stitched I mean on the timeline, just random unconnnected ats
@artbysamwhite Yeah I can't tell if this place is unintuitive or just different from all the habits I've built up elsewhere, or if there's even a difference between those two lol
It seems a lot of the stuff they've understandably done to foster a safer community (no QRT equivalent for example) also makes it way harder to form a community at all? But I am still early days I am trying to give this place a chance and not immediately go "this sucks and I hate it"
Initial Mastodon impression: the fact that it doesn't show replies under the thing they're replying to and does not make it obvious when something is threaded makes this place bad for conversation which is the primary twitter draw for me, idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use social media to interact, not throw messages in bottles out into the hashtag ocean, but maybe the site makes more sense the more you use it =\