Everything you say about the Mastodon experience of November 2022 is extremely true. Difficult, awkward, cringey. I hung around anyway and after a few weeks things got a lot better. I found more and more of "my people," some I knew from Twitter and some new. Posts on Mastodon stopped being mostly about Mastodon (and stopped being called toots). I follow many journalists from all around the world, so the current events and political reporting is filling in nicely. Also, no ads! When an algorithm isn't feeding you, it takes more effort to build the feed you want, but it's possible and it gets easier the longer you're there. To me that extra effort is worth it to be on a non-billionaired site.
The hall monitors broke Twitter first. Musk bought it, he is allowed to break whatever he buys. Until he bought it, the hall monitor class was happy to let the app run at a loss so they could control the information. Now Musk gets to do that because that is privilege of ownership. If we don't want it to happen again, let's perhaps consider not suspending people over pronouns?
Everything you say about the Mastodon experience of November 2022 is extremely true. Difficult, awkward, cringey. I hung around anyway and after a few weeks things got a lot better. I found more and more of "my people," some I knew from Twitter and some new. Posts on Mastodon stopped being mostly about Mastodon (and stopped being called toots). I follow many journalists from all around the world, so the current events and political reporting is filling in nicely. Also, no ads! When an algorithm isn't feeding you, it takes more effort to build the feed you want, but it's possible and it gets easier the longer you're there. To me that extra effort is worth it to be on a non-billionaired site.
Hey, how bout a shout out to Substack for not being a shithole country.
The hall monitors broke Twitter first. Musk bought it, he is allowed to break whatever he buys. Until he bought it, the hall monitor class was happy to let the app run at a loss so they could control the information. Now Musk gets to do that because that is privilege of ownership. If we don't want it to happen again, let's perhaps consider not suspending people over pronouns?