I am totally new to @Mastodon in terms of its usage, but I am totally aware of how it works.
My last few days experience:
1. I am totally stunned by its utility, freedom and control.
2. Instances/Servers - decentralisation has always been a key issue on other social networks.
3. I have lots of followers on Twitter, and I am ready to ditch that as a Twitter algorithm is becoming ad-centric and illogical shadow banning.
4. Though it has been years since the Mastodon existed, I must say one thing it will take a few more years to be fully adopted in the mainstream as the majority is unaware about centralized and decentralisation of tech and ownership of their content.
5. The Mastodon community is amazing. No doubt why it's trending on other platforms
Lastly, I would like to say, I will be moving to this platform permanently and utilize every functionality that it possesses.
This diaspora from Twitter brought a lot of people that are using Mastodon like any other product/service they are used to and they are not experiencing the culture of the Fediverse because they interact with each others.
I mean, it's one thing to use Mastodon, Apple and Adobe products, Discord, Substack the latest shiny JS frameworks and so on and instead using Mastodon (or Pleroma etc), a Linux desktop, an old Android phone, Bash, PHP, Python, Ruby and a blog on your own domain.
Do you get what I mean?
