"The experimental platform with no VC funding whatsoever messed up, I'm going back to the fascist wasteland that is trying to juice me for money by showing me enraging content."
The author did not leave Mastodon, they switched to the largest instance:
> Mastodon's biggest problem is that the majority of Mastodon instance administrators are unqualified, and unsuspecting Mastodon users become the victims of shoddy administration ... Despite Mastodon's ambition to be a decentralized network, I can't recommend joining an instance other than the biggest one, mastodon.social.
This fellow wants the same experience from a completely different system, seems to me, which is also the reason that the Twitter people have had so much static from the Mastodon people - it's a different place, with different things going on, and very different assumptions.
All of the negative writing I've seen has basically been different versions of "I have expectations as a user, and Mastodon has not met those expectations, so I can't recommend it" with no further examination. No questioning of their own assumptions and expectations, no respect for a culture that has evolved over years by its own bootstraps while they languished in comfy gardens run by evil autocrats, very rarely even a clear explanation of the differences between Mastodon and other networks.
Mastodon is not "another social network" that comes from the same place as the others. It comes from hating the others and wanting something different from t them. These writers who come from this "why, Mastodon, should I bestow my precious attention onto your platform rather than these others?" as though Mastodon had something to gain from capturing your attention.
It does not; Mastodon rejects the attention economy, so in fact, everyone should be asking themselves what kind of quality content they have to bring. Mastodon does not care about your attention, it only wants to provide you with the tools to find things that your attention craves with no fascism or vile spam or propagandizing by billionaires.
Ask not what your social media can do for you - ask what you can do for your social network.
See, people need to remember something. The 4th of the 12 truths of Networking applies to sysadminry.
Rfc 1925
(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network.
If you want to know why X did Y, you have to sample. You have to become literate, you have to try.
walterbell|2 years ago
> Mastodon's biggest problem is that the majority of Mastodon instance administrators are unqualified, and unsuspecting Mastodon users become the victims of shoddy administration ... Despite Mastodon's ambition to be a decentralized network, I can't recommend joining an instance other than the biggest one, mastodon.social.
jtode|2 years ago
All of the negative writing I've seen has basically been different versions of "I have expectations as a user, and Mastodon has not met those expectations, so I can't recommend it" with no further examination. No questioning of their own assumptions and expectations, no respect for a culture that has evolved over years by its own bootstraps while they languished in comfy gardens run by evil autocrats, very rarely even a clear explanation of the differences between Mastodon and other networks.
Mastodon is not "another social network" that comes from the same place as the others. It comes from hating the others and wanting something different from t them. These writers who come from this "why, Mastodon, should I bestow my precious attention onto your platform rather than these others?" as though Mastodon had something to gain from capturing your attention.
It does not; Mastodon rejects the attention economy, so in fact, everyone should be asking themselves what kind of quality content they have to bring. Mastodon does not care about your attention, it only wants to provide you with the tools to find things that your attention craves with no fascism or vile spam or propagandizing by billionaires.
Ask not what your social media can do for you - ask what you can do for your social network.
salawat|2 years ago
Rfc 1925
(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network.
If you want to know why X did Y, you have to sample. You have to become literate, you have to try.
Once you do, so much starts to make sense.