As a researcher of alternative social media platforms, I couldn’t resist joining the #forkiverse.
If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear your story. What brought you here? What keeps you here?
@anna I've never found myself much in place with Twitter-like platforms. I enjoyed FB much more in the early days. I don't like people-centric conversations, I prefer topic-based communities. The fediverse affords this through platforms like a.gup.pe, mbin, lemmy and piefed. The best part is that it's a common experience with mastodon and its alikes. Still figuring how to use it and the experience needs to improve a lot.
Certainly never going back to a social network sustained around clickbait and scam. By now I'm convinced that any corporate social network has no other options but become exactly of that type.
