Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use
has no venture capital investors
has no shareholders to answer to
has no growth targets
with a web interface with zero tracking cookies
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
Social Software but not Social People...
@GossiTheDog People also make people better.
BUT software alone doesn't teach people how to be more social (at all). So without people pushing social it's mostly just great software sometimes with nobody pushing and reply and encouraged to reply. It's not really a movement of people which Mastodon kind of is as software but isn't manned as much else to really spread it's principles with everyone here mutual (a lot) but not really doing much about it or giving each other things to do (that kind of social like massive pub / go around tables / get there in the end kind of meet randoms).
Strangers are still seen as just that like everyone forgets how to meet / make new friends / cooperation.
I say this positively that there's a whole another #FediVerse (like another SpiderVerse / #Universe...) but basically people aren't that friendly to strangers (that's the #crux of #social we need to break to all become more friends and weed the rest out / upgrade them)
People are the same as the outside.
#Isolating and scared even though I wouldn't be able to do much from here but help them and give ideas which are the basis of all trying... And way too comfortable paying taxes.
#Harsh but very evident in a number of ways on #mastodon etc...
