It's called 'Outside'. Try meeting some people in it. They tend to be sane, and friendly. Usually."
1. These are not mutually exclusive
2. Very condescending tone
Yes being outside is great, but there are parts of the world where you spend half the year inside because of the cold(outside). There's also been a pandemic going on for quite awhile where in many parts of the world the "outside" has been severely restricted.
People outside might not be discussing topics that you're interested in.
I'm indifferent to both Mastodon and Twitter, but they both have their place in the world.
You're right on several accounts. I've been hosting a mastodon instance for almost 5 years now but people are horrible. Sexist, xenophobic, bitter and more. I don't think mastodon is a twitter alternative unless you just want to promote AP federation in classical communities.
That's what fascinates me about AP federation. I want to see a return to all those different punbb, phpbb, vbb type boards we had during the late 90s and early 2000s, but federated this time.
The metaphor I'm going for is that Mastadon is like some weird cross between e-mail and a shared mailing list with everyone on the provider (the local timeline).
Everything flows from that. Yes, your provider can read your DMs. If you're on a very small provider there might be weird shit going on. People kinda self-identify to the domain they're on. Huge domains will not really have a feel beyond being big.
And of course you can just go into your own little corner of the internet and do your thing. There are loads of instances that are pretty chill. And if you know someone on a different instance you can just follow them!
You can choose to be outside of nonsense if you want. And unlike other forms of social media, while there is _some_ homogeneity through social spread, the fact that there are these varied instances and people kinda sticking to their own corner of the fediverse for the most part, you can just have a localized experience.
Every social network doesn't need to be everything for everyone at once.
Of course if you're going onto instances that are, like, built around being Extremely Online All The Time, yes people will be annoying.
lillecarl|3 years ago
It's called 'Outside'. Try meeting some people in it. They tend to be sane, and friendly. Usually."
1. These are not mutually exclusive
2. Very condescending tone
Yes being outside is great, but there are parts of the world where you spend half the year inside because of the cold(outside). There's also been a pandemic going on for quite awhile where in many parts of the world the "outside" has been severely restricted.
People outside might not be discussing topics that you're interested in.
I'm indifferent to both Mastodon and Twitter, but they both have their place in the world.
sjmm1989|3 years ago
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INTPenis|3 years ago
That's what fascinates me about AP federation. I want to see a return to all those different punbb, phpbb, vbb type boards we had during the late 90s and early 2000s, but federated this time.
sjmm1989|3 years ago
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rtpg|3 years ago
Everything flows from that. Yes, your provider can read your DMs. If you're on a very small provider there might be weird shit going on. People kinda self-identify to the domain they're on. Huge domains will not really have a feel beyond being big.
And of course you can just go into your own little corner of the internet and do your thing. There are loads of instances that are pretty chill. And if you know someone on a different instance you can just follow them!
You can choose to be outside of nonsense if you want. And unlike other forms of social media, while there is _some_ homogeneity through social spread, the fact that there are these varied instances and people kinda sticking to their own corner of the fediverse for the most part, you can just have a localized experience.
Every social network doesn't need to be everything for everyone at once.
Of course if you're going onto instances that are, like, built around being Extremely Online All The Time, yes people will be annoying.
sjmm1989|3 years ago
Vomits
chrisco255|3 years ago
dotnet00|3 years ago
sjmm1989|3 years ago
These are very different things. :p
Also... of course anything attached to reddit isn't sane. It has humans in it.
eyelidlessness|3 years ago