Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@qoto.org

Very chill and normal Monday. Nothing at all ominous looming on the horizon.

#IndigenousMastodon where you at? #FirstNations #Indigiqueer #TwoSpirit #Indigenous

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#BlackMastodon

I noticed there seems to be a lot less #prison content over here than THE OTHER PLACE so I asked a group of prisoners with contraband phones - they’re in a message chain together - if they had joined the #migration yet… and none had heard of mastodon. BUT they said they are wary of social media apps bc they eat up data… would mastodon typically use less data than Twitter or the same? I assume (?) not more?

@Anabelthe1st I think the no ads thing is great here. Also everyone here seems authentic and more enthusiastic about making a good first impression in order to make this work. Very exciting. I think it’s the people and not celebrity status that make a community. Everyone is starting over and learning something new which is humbling and fosters a sense of trust out of need. We’re on the precipice of something great I think.

I've already lost 10K followers on Twitter since Musk took over so I figured I'd try to figure out where everyone is going.

I am still somewhat confused about the status of people on other servers and my ability to follow or interact with them.

Elon Musk watching everyone have fun on Mastadon after going $40,000,000,000 in debt to own the libs.

Mastodon feels like the Star Wars cantina

Elon just locked my Twitter acct. I guess not ALL the content moderators were let go? Lol.

Okay! Seems like I’ve got a decent audience here, so let’s do an old-fashioned #ff Follow Friday. Reply here if you’ve just come over (or come back) to Mastodon or the fediverse, so people can find you.

Roll call for #blackmastodon

Where y'all at?

Let me know so I can follow!

Hello all! I have newly arrived from the wilds of Twitter and am trying to find my people. I am a reporter and I post about #journalism #texas #deathpenalty and the shitshows that are #prisons.

And sometimes I pose in cemeteries in front of hearses.

Re: "Twitter is bad for us"

Most people only know to engage with the internet via the primary monoliths; Facebook, Twitter, etc. Anyone who's been active online before those platforms existed knows much better on how high-quality an online community can be.

Look at Reddit. The large subreddits are broadly cesspools; they're more targeted by spams/trolls/brigades, they attract the worst actors, and they're much harder to moderate effectively.

The small subreddits are often excellent communities, since they don't attract the nonsense, and can be moderated more effectively just because the numbers are lower.

So many people can't even begin to grasp this because all they know about online interaction is their experience with the top-down walled gardens.

The monoliths can exist, but using them exclusively (which most people do!) just feed a bunch of garbage into your brain.

It's the equivalent of having only eaten fast food when you eat out. It sucks but if it's all you know, it's still food you didn't have to cook yourself so cool. But there's much better food out there with some effort!

Is anyone doing jokes on here yet? Or are we all still fumbling around trying to figure shit out?

Amazing #twitter

It feels as if the whole “system” is slow and non-responsive right now, so it’s a bit hard to assess features. That’s understandable — not a complaint.

Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.

The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.

Personally, I'm convinced of two things:

- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.

- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.

Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.

So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.

Well, guess I’m on Mastodon now. Retweet if you agree.