Almost everyone who says "Mastodon didn't work for me" on Bluesky seems to have posted only "me me me" stuff for months (if that) on Mastodon, followed about 10-20 people, never replied to anyone and then gave up because "nobody there, it didn't fly".
It seems there is a big misunderstanding how this free and healthy social media works. We are not here for the easy wins, likes, shares and dopamine spikes. We are here because we accept the fact we are not part of the commercial hype machine. We choose natural engagement over spoiling algorithms, we choose conversation and meaning in our social media. At least that is how I see it.
@rolle
Corporate 'Social' Media
Is a competition space for gaining followers, ego-boosting, #shitposting & self promotion. It is how they are built & designed. A few massively circulated posts, from handful of accounts & a vast sea of ignored posts.
Community #Social#Media
Is a cooperative space for finding friends, learning stuff, supporting each other &having fun. With attention spread between users far more evenly. It is not a social overlords vs serf audience model. #Fedi#Fediverse
Every time I see this sign, I wonder if the two towns are in eternal conflict over which takes primacy: youth or the abode of spiritual essence. #Japan#Shitposting
Suggeritemi #meme e #shitposting pls
Sono nuova su mastodon e faccio fatica a trovarne, spacciatemi hashtag e account da seguire per alleggerire la mia tl tra una catastrofe umanitaria / ambientale e l'altra
PKM/note-taking is still huge over on YouTube, and there’s lots of methods like PARA, Cornell system, etc — my system is simply capture notes in text (org mode in my case) and use ripgrep to find things later. No refile, no review.
This is kind of #shitposting , but I imagine some people get overwhelmed seeing all this content and never actually start — here’s permission to just start taking notes without a system.
Got reminded of Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324) and how I actually have some servers that return "418 I'M A TEAPOT" when not serving data the way you've contacted them.
Then I thought about Charlie Stross's (@cstross) Laundry novels and the implication of having servers all shout I'M A TEAPOT into the void in unison whenever they deny you something.
I'm a #nonbinary person in my thirties who tries to make a living making computers do stuff for soulless fintech companies. I'm #bisexual and a bunch of other #lgbtq stuff probably. Please use they/them pronouns, thanks!
I currently live in #Chicago and absolutely love it. If it's not your favorite city you're probably wrong. Come here and eat our food you won't regret it.
I'm mostly here for #memes and #shitposting, so yeah... smash that follow button.
just remembered the time i managed to convince some of my american friends into thinking all british electronics and internet were disabled during the mourning period and i was only able to talk because i was using a VPN
Fediverse slander (www.youtube.com)