You know the thing I love about Mastodon?
It's the ups and downs in server performance.
Those moments when activity peaks so high that stuff glitches out a bit. Toots don't load. Notifications don't come in. The beachball spins up.
All these are signs of something real. Signs of real human activity. The sae way a room gets difficult to navigate when it gets too crowded.
But more importantly, it gives you a sense of ownership of the platform.
How so?
Well if the servers aren't performing as well as they should be, we prolly need to ramp them up.
And who feels most responsible for this?
The Mastodonians do, we ourselves realise that it is our contribution that keeps this network afloat.
A 100% crowdfunded SN owned by the people.
Gone are the days when we would throng free services. They were only free in the financial sense. But we were paying for them dearly with our precious mental resources.
But we are free now, and all we have to pay is the equivalent of a Starbucks coffee.
Gonna leave a meme here for all you lovely people. (Yes that includes the obnoxious Indian Left wing too)
