3 weeks of Mastodon@QOTO

So it’s 3 weeks since I joined Mastodon@QOTO. My motivation was a low threshold scrapbook place were I can throw whatever I want to remember and/or share with friends.

After these couple of weeks, I can say this:

• works - kind of. Feels a bit weird, probably because I never did this kind of stuff in public before
• obviously what I am doing is not very standard (more than 200 chars), but within the design envelope of Mastodon and QOTO (kudos for all the customisations, I like it!)
• probably what I am doing would be better called mini-blogging (more than Twitter, less than a blog). When called this way, I took a look at services which do that (e.g., Tumblr) and the usage pattern fits
• timelines are somewhat distracting, but I’ll try to use this in a somewhat introvert mode anyway
• interactions are not a bad part of the experience, but need to be managed - can be easily distracting
• lots of strange stuff fly around, but can be filtered out when needed
• the images people post are a throwback into 90’s when we were sending this via e-mail (I still have a couple of GBs in my mailbox archive just funny pics and powerpoint slidedecks full of one-off jokes). Since I left this subculture, I never thought it still clogs the Intertubes elsewhere. Still fun, but I could do without.
• tooling: Tusky proved useful, toot is good too, web interface a bit overwhelming and distracting
• still need to work out how to deal with hashtags - probably will ignore

#note