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ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-11-05 12:14 Link \| ID: 558
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Mastodon is a federated alternative to Twitter. It's not controlled by any corporate entity, you aren't the product when using the service, and anyone can start their own instance and federate with the rest of the network. I'm over at the Fosstodon instance, @ROllerozxa@fosstodon.org. I've had it for a while but I really should be more active on it.

luatic	luatic	Posted on 2022-11-05 12:41 Link \| ID: 559
Posts: 42 Joined: 2022-06-16	Why should you be active on it? I don't like the "short message" format at all.

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-11-05 19:10 (edited 2022-11-05 20:11) Link \| ID: 561
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	For once I agree with luatic - Mastodon is a horrendous piece of software, Pleroma is actually a better alternative and integrates with the same network of instances (colloquatively referred to as GNU Social, after the original successor to StatusNet).

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-11-05 20:21 Link \| ID: 565
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by luatic Why should you be active on it? I don't like the "short message" format at all. Well I see it as being a more public and permanent platform for things I would normally send in Discord channels that gets forgotten quickly. I guess Pleroma as a software seems to be lighter than the Mastodon software but... I don't run my own instance, so that's kinda moot. Â¯\_(._.)_/Â¯

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2023-07-02 08:18 (edited 2023-07-02 08:19) Link \| ID: 655
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	I guess it's just interesting to me that Twitter and things clearly made in its likeness are the only social media platform male nerds really use, whereas all other social media platforms are mostly dominated by more ordinary people, sex being irrelevant. (For arguments sake Reddit and Discord do not count in this argument, the former is commercialised bulletin boards and the latter is commercialised IM) Tumblr was somewhat an exception, but much of its culture never really spilt out of there until circa 2014/2015, even then it was mostly just schoolgirls messing around, rather than 'serious' internet addicts for the most part making up much of the user base as far as I'm aware... (could be wrong on that, given a lot of Jul/Kafuka members were also on Tumblr, but were occupying a totally different space to the casual schoolgirl crowd like my sister back then)