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.
Agree entirely with this. The early days were all about schooling the newbies (me included) but that seems to have gone away. But it's still almost entirely free of snark and trolling, maybe a by-product of blocking all the really bad actors (racists, misogynists etc). I like that, since I had to manually block them on Twitter even pre-Musk. But the result is low energy, which may not suit the kinds of users Faine liked to hang out with.
My social media stategy is to follow, listen to, and elevate the voices of Black women. I do that with others too, but I make it a point to follow black women commentators, journalists, scientists, academics, politicians, artists, etc. After 15+ years of this strategy on various social media sites including Twitter & Mastodon my home feed is far from low energy. I've learned a lot about the world and myself and am a better person for it.
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?
Everyone gets misgendered sometime or other. Only a Cluster B narcissist cares. Compelled speech is un-American, just as forcing other people to use your magic woo pronouns or take part in your social justice wizard circle is un-American. Maybe consider alternatives to becoming the thing you hate?
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.
Agree entirely with this. The early days were all about schooling the newbies (me included) but that seems to have gone away. But it's still almost entirely free of snark and trolling, maybe a by-product of blocking all the really bad actors (racists, misogynists etc). I like that, since I had to manually block them on Twitter even pre-Musk. But the result is low energy, which may not suit the kinds of users Faine liked to hang out with.
My social media stategy is to follow, listen to, and elevate the voices of Black women. I do that with others too, but I make it a point to follow black women commentators, journalists, scientists, academics, politicians, artists, etc. After 15+ years of this strategy on various social media sites including Twitter & Mastodon my home feed is far from low energy. I've learned a lot about the world and myself and am a better person for it.
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?
Sorry? people? didn't tolerate you misgendering them? Seems terrible. Make sure to take a minute in your one precious life on earth to cry about it 👍
Everyone gets misgendered sometime or other. Only a Cluster B narcissist cares. Compelled speech is un-American, just as forcing other people to use your magic woo pronouns or take part in your social justice wizard circle is un-American. Maybe consider alternatives to becoming the thing you hate?