Done with Twitter and Reddit
I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.
Hello Lemmy
Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!
I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.
That's because you haven't found The Good Ones ™ such as TILVids
I think the thing that may finally drive people off the platform may be the limitation on viewing posts. Busy days, I'm not likely to hit the limit - big news day? Yeah, going to hit the limit pretty fucking fast.
Yeah- this is my big gripe with all of the alternative video sharing platforms. All of them have a significantly right-wing conspiracy theorist bias. Not really a place I see myself spending a lot of time, personally.
Damn, I've only been to Lemmy and Kbin so far...
Baby steps are ok.
I'd only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don't watch streamers or microblog so.
Are there apps for any of those?
what is the advantage to using kbin if i am already using lemmy?
Mastodon/Fed Twitter integration. You can post on a Lemmy community, tag a hashtag and it becomes a microblog (tweet) at the same time. But upvoted and downvotes are public on kbin. So depends what you want.
And in the long run we'll see if kbin can keep up with the Twitter like software on the Twitter side and if it can keep up with Lemmy for reddit features at the same time. Like Lemmy can focus purely on meeting Reddits features then passing them. Kbin has to worry and work on both.
Much to learn it seems
Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.
Reddit is different... I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.
So I'm not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don't give me something to read over breakfast...
I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I'm trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.
We might have to accept we're on the "losing" side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We'll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.
Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.
That sounds like the winning side to me.
I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn't see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I'm going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform
Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I've been using Apple News as my "read over breakfast" app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.
I hope you consider an open news alternative, or even a closed one slightly less bad than Apple. Good for you for not using Reddit though.
I fear that sounded too condescending, I seriously want to encourage you to not use Apple without making you sound like an idiot.
I don't think you are an idiot, just the same as the other millions of people who were taken in by Apple's 'privacy' and 'simplicity', while not realising the price gouging, right to repair smashing, closed source, keeping everything ensnared its ecosystem that it really is.
I was never big on Twitter myself... I made an account when it first came out and never used it... and then for a high school unit for something we were required to make accounts (I graduated 10+ years ago... so that in and of itself is scary). I've never liked twitter. It always seemed to be screaming into the void.
Mastodon I really appreciate the real conversations with real people, especially when they are interested in what I have to say. I made a post about getting rid of lawns and had people from all angles of the argument discussing with me about it. It felt... healthy?!
Well, as healthy as internettin' is.
Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞
Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL
I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.
Talk about a damn boner killer.
Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.
I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list's for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.
What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿
While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)
I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn't. I don't use Twitter so I wasn't able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.
It's incredibly short sighted of them to do this.
Audience capture is a bitch
I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.
It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.
I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.
I make one post a month on Facebook. Usually within the first couple days. This month's was about how since the supreme court wanted to rule dumb last week, I was going to play along and disallow certain people from shopping at my etsy shop. Got me a handful of orders, too... which is nice.
Reddit I just use still to check in on if any weird news happened... but that's about it.
How does this comment have nearly 50 up votes?
How does this comment have nearly 50 up votes?
Welcome!! We are glad to have you here!
Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔
I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good
Any advice on mastodon?
I use Mastoot it’s pretty cool
Beyond the general app recommendations, here's some more advice
- Take a moment to read fedi.tips
- Hashtags are your friend. Follow them. Use them. Capitalize each word in them
- You will miss things. That is the point
- For accounts you don't want to miss, click the bell in the profile or make a list
- Boost the toots!
- Be here to make connections
- No algorithm means post what you want
- Add alt-text to images
I just started using Ice Cubes and it’s pretty solid
I love Moshidon as mobil app
It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.
Lol, what community was this
/c/memes@lemmy.ml if i recall correctly
Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years
I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.
Same.
I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn't be dealing with the increasing enshittification.
I've had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it's definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend's bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn't going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.
So I'm just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Vive la Fédération
Same; I've been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can't take it anymore. It's all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can't shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn't quite do it just yet.
The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.
BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.
Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(
Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!
The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.
r/formula1 and r/soccer for me personally
There's a !Football one that seems tho be getting the content.
There's a Formula 1 community. It's still small, but we can all make it grow. Also, the soccer community managed to grab the football name before the other guys, LOL
be the change you want to see, subscribe to those communities and be active in them
Is there a fantasy football one that's migrated over?
A couple of small ones are starting out here and there: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fantasy+football
Doesn't seem like big communities hopped over yet.
Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.
The quality of content on reddit has deteriorated at an astounding pace. It feels like everyone is just repeating the same thing to get upvotes... and upvoting people who repeat the same thing. I'm kind of glad it exists now as a containment zone. The people who want higher quality content can move to the fediverse. Those who don't can stay right where they are.
A lot of it seems to be repost bots these days, and it's impossible to know whether the upvotes they get are real or coming from other bots.
I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.
I was surprised by how much muscle I memory had to click RIF. I opened it almost instinctually all weekend.
I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I'm excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit
I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn't financially viable and it's worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn't control the majority of traffic.
The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that'll never make it to an alternative site. I don't think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.
As soon as everyone realizes Youtube is seriously declining everyone at c/datahoarder is gonna start archiving everything. I'm personally going to try and archive as much of my favorite channels as I can. Regardless of everyone's efforts though there's still gonna be so much lost content.
Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.
With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don't directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it's resources needed don't really matter that much.
Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.
This is the problem with modern social media in general. It's no longer about being "social," and all about trying to make a buck. Every time someone complains on Mastodon about their "engagement," my eyes roll.
Fortunately, corporate social media seems eager to cut its own throat: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-twitter-mark-zuckerberg-changes-facebook-social-media-tech-rcna89766
Centralized social media is as viable as any other digital media, but like many other services there's not a lot of room for growth once you reach the plateau. This is fine for a private company, but doesn't translate well to public or investment platforms who's returns are based on profit growth over consistency.
I'm waiting for my GDPR data to nuke all my reddits posts and delete my account.
I got my data, and nuked everything !
Welcome mate, I still have Twitter but I hope one day I'll be able to cut it off for good!
Just moved to lemmy right now, liking it so far. Will see if I can remove reddit from my diet (lol). Now looking at Bluesky instead of twitter.
Don't forget to check out Mastodon, which is also similar to Twitter and is part of the Fediverse.
I really don't use twitter that much... maybe 5 times a month if even that..? Reddit however is a daily addiction.
I put them in my DNS blacklist together with Ticktock and Facebook
Same. The new influx of people has made my experience a little shaky, but I’m still very happy to have this non-spezed reddit to enjoy without the guilt. Fuck reddit, I’m glad I left and I hope they get fucked
People still using Twitter? Never had one and I am glad. I stopped using Reddit. Lemmy been a blast!
Twitter is one of the things that shows me how much we all live in bubbles. I have a twitter account and know a few people who have one too but it's not really a huge thing among people I know. But sometimes I stumble upon huge communities that heavily use twitter and absolutely rely upon it.
I set up a Twitter account during the Wagner mutiny to be able to follow a few people I know through podcasts. Journalists and public figures and whatnot.
Although I've used Twitter in the (distant) path I just don't know how these people keep going. About 75% percent of the comments under their Tweets are from completely obsessed and insane people.
Twitter makes /r/politics and /r/worldnews seem a calm and collected bunch.
Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!
PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App 😂
I was on the edge, but this event with Halli showed clearly that Elon is not right person to lead Twitter.
Exactly. I had a very high regard for Musk before he opened his mouth during early lock down. His technological initiatives (Specially SpaceX) has being great drivers. (Though he's not the one doing the innovations) But he as a person have the qualities of worst human beings. If he kept his mouth shut, could have gone a long way, still.
Same here. I'm getting more into abandoning projects and companies with insane leadership as I get older. The older the get the more I realize that we should have been destroying these idols from the start.
Welcome! I moved to lemmy the Sunday before the blackout and haven't looked back. I did go back finally on June 30 and deleted my account. There may not be as much content now but that will come in time as we all hopefully try and contribute. I was mostly a lurker on reddit myself, only started commenting more within the past year so will try to be better here. I am quite enjoying my time here and I hope you do as well.
Welcome to the club, there are quite a few of us in the same situation
Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far
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Yeah, I've decided to at least give it a good shot, to try and see if I can stick with lemmy and mastodon. My current problem is I'm finding it really hard to find people to follow on mastodon, and to find enough active communities on lemmy to sate my social media appetite.
Agreed, I set up an account on Mastodon when everyone first left Twitter (not that I use Twitter much either) but didn't understand the fediverse back then. I wish there was a way to see if anyone I follow is on Mastodon but I guess that functionality went with the APIs.
FediFinder worked for me, although not too many people I follow on twitter moved to mastodon, which sucks.
I just went (logged out) to the onesSubreddit I care about at this point (only because they post an event schedule every Monday) and Reddit is super slow. That's not going to help them. I mean, Lemmy can be super slow too, but Lemmy also hasn't been around since the '00s.
Can't really blame them for stability tbh. Not only lemmy is experiencing a massive influx of new users trying to do things, but it's also user-hosted, without a real monetization strategy. I'm impressed it's as good as it is, and is still trying to become better
Lemmy is still experiencing a lot of growing pains, but I already like it in general more than what Reddit has become.
Between Lemmy &kbin I have everything I want, Reddit and Twitter can fuck off.
Amen, the only people that provide content are the users.
Does your Lemmy instance federate with Kbin?
I don’t think so? not yet anyway I guess.
Same. I feel much better already. I'm very optimistic for Lemmy after it gets these initial technical issues worked out.
I thought I'd be able to roll with the Reddit Android app. But, man, it's rough. All of the fonts are way too tiny, and navigation can be a giant jankfest at times.
I might still roll by Reddit on a fullsize PC monitor on the web. Or I might not. Kind of depends on if Lemmy totally buckles under the server pressure over the next week or two.
The servers have been rough today, but ultimately I haven't found it too intolerable. Haven't really been a big fan of the Reddit desktop site, so I'm probably sticking around here for a bit.
I'm definitely using reddit less after they got rid of RiF. If they ever kill old.reddit.com I think I will be permanently done with them. Loving Lemmy so far though!
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Everything I use Twitter for stayed on Twitter. I can't leave it entirely... Same with Reddit.
Now I'm curious. What things do you get from Twitter and Reddit, that you can't find elsewhere?
I'm not the OP, but in my case I used Twitter to follow artists. Most of them either already had a presence elsewhere, or created one in the mess following Elon's takeover. However not all of them did.
When I decided to delete my Twitter account, I did loose access to the feed of some artists I enjoyed.
I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.
Welcome to the platform! Unfortunately, Reddit isn't what it used to be, but we definitely can reignite the community that we all so fondly remember. Already loving it here and how friendly everyone has been :)
Reddit was sucking for a bit. I'm really hopeful that the majority that made the jump are the more "quality" posters (for lack of a better word) and that this place will be a lot more like the reddit that we all look back fondly on
Same, I'm trying to be more active in terms of at least commenting and upvoting than I was on Reddit, a little bit because I hope more comments and activity will help bring in more people, and a little bit because I think each user's voice is more important when there's fewer users
I still use Reddit. Lemmy still doesn't have a lot of the communities I know and love on Reddit.
Never used Twitter.
yea i use both, there's many communites on reddit that just straight up dont exist here yet, not to mention that lemmy still has things to improve UX wise
i do hope lemmy grows though, i interact on here way more than on reddit especially after the protests
Time will tell. Lemmy needs more users and more content. Feels like Reddit from the late 2000s right now. The demographic is mostly male/tech-literate and the only threads that get responses are tech and gaming subjects.
Same, a lot of people acting like you have to use one or the other its just silly. Clearly lemmy isn't big enough to contain all of the niche news and updates from various communities yet and that's fine. As lemmy hopefully grows then I'll shift over here but in the meantime reddit is still better for content, anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves lol.
I visited Reddit exclusively with Apollo. Even so, my last visit was on June 11.
Did the same thing a few days ago and honestly feels pretty great
You're not alone, I've been on Reddit for a long time, 12 years on and off since introduced. Honestly never used it much at all until finding Boost 5 or so years ago and have been a daily user ever since spending at least a few hours a day on it just interacting and commenting. I commented more than I viewed posts lol just was always talking. They've done a lot over the years to irritate me as a user, getting all mecha PC and destroying all my favorite communities should've been when I quit but it wasn't. Half the site turning "blue" when I'm not really into politics, sparking constant political discourse for every comment I made that didn't strictly fit the current blue rhetoric was another straw but I dealt with it and tried to keep my comments as bland as I could while still speaking my mind. But now killing the 3pa and this whole shitshow? Nah, I hate their official app and have only ever even used the site thanks to Boost, before boost my account was unused, so shall it be after boost. You know what, it's mainly bc of how much I hate spez now. It was one thing supporting a company with a blank face that fucked me over at every turn, always blaming the mods, the admins, whoever. But spez? I just can't see helping that guy out in any way after all this.
Yeah politics is why I only lurked on Reddit and never contributed. You want an echo chamber? Fine, I'll come here for r/linux troubleshooting, but fuck everything else. Hoping the problematic Lemmy instances root themselves out once I start my instance.
Hey! I was a big Boost user as well and have made my jump as well. It seems like everyone I come across on here is an iOS user and has been recommending a lot of stuff for Apollo replacements, but have you come across anything that would work well for an Android user that might scratch that same Boost itch?
I deleted Twitter when Musk took over, but I still have Reddit. Once I get the hang of this, I will probably delete Reddit as well. I have noticed that for most of the Reddits I follow, the post counts are WAY down. Many posts are going unanswered or no replies.
There's no reason for a community driven site like Reddit to do things that hurt the community. It's like they are trying to kill themselves the same way Musk is trying to kill Twitter.
It's better to get away from those properties now before something worse happens.
Recently signed up for both Lemmy and Mastodon and it's a breath of fresh air after dealing with BS on Twitter and Reddit over the past few years. Welcome!
I'm trying to make the change too. So here we are at Lemmy. I'm done with Reddit.
Same here! I’ve moved from Reddit/Twitter to Lemmy and BlueSky, both of which have been an upgrade.
Welcome. I deleted all my old social media accounts. I think only LinkedIn is left. Mastodon is a delight to use and with so many apps available, you can have the best experience posible. The same is happening with Lemmy.
Just a couple of months ago it was like 3-4 comments per post. Now is huge.
I know the fact that it doesn't have one is kind of a feature, but I do wish Mastodon had some sort of algorithm feed. I liked that after I liked a couple of football/soccer tweets, Twitter started surfacing popular football tweets, even if they didn't have any hashtags.
This is the huge problem with Masrodon imo. Twitter has all kinds of crazy algorithms, often bad and leaning towards hate/fear. Mastodon seems to be on the far other end with very little to drive engagement.
This is why a Reddit-type use (Lemmy) is perfect. The algorithm is mostly human driven with upvotes/downvotes.
This a huge benefit of federated content. I have never been force-fed content from an AlGoRiThYm that was remotely relevant to my interests.
That said, if someone does successfully develop a bot that does take into consideration my eclectic tastes, it can be easily implemented due to the open nature of ActivityPub. It is unlikely be corrupted by commercial interests to manipulate me, and if it does, I have the ability to ignore it.
The problem with algorithms is that they drive you into silos without you even realizing it. They always start out as very helpful but then turn against the user unintentionally. In all honesty the best thing FB, Twitter, etc could do is allow you to completely turn it off. That way you can take a break from the silo to see the normal world. It's why services like Reddit and Lemmy are working so well. You can go to a community and see similar stuff posted or go to the all pages and see shit you didn't even know existed.
Have not touched my Reddit account since June 30th 0:00
First time poster. I'm on lemmy.world but found not many of my channels like I have on Reddit. How you all find your niche subs that are bigger than 30 people?
Gotta post content and engage with the small communities to help them grow I guess. Since I've started a few weeks ago I've seen new communities spring up everywhere. Hopefully in time whatever you are missing will come to Lemmy.
The two things that worked for me are:
Do that for a bit, then you can sort by "subscribed."
Seems to be a workable strategy.
I'm really struggling in getting used to Mastodon. Already created two accounts in two different instances but couldn't follow any interesting accounts or whatever.
Check out and follow @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services they promote a lot of interesting or notable accounts, most of the time theme based. They also have a directory at sorted by topics. https://fedi.directory/
Edit to add: also follow @feditips@mstdn.social for tips to making the most out of the Fediverse
What are you struggling with?
I can't find a good instance + people to follow.
You should have a go at following hashtags instead of users. You'll find it much more interactive and interesting.
I can't stand chaining comments (with one word in each comment). It's fun to see them once in a while, but they appear as often as spams now.
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I just joined Lemmy today for this same reason. Let's see how it goes.
Been on Twitter (with Tweetbot) & Reddit (with Apollo) for 10+ years. I kept to my follow list and subreddits and really did not see a lot of the toxicity that everyone talks about. I think that is largely because 1) I was using third party apps and wasn’t getting any adds or suggested posts, and 2) I was mostly lurking and didn’t have a lot of posts or comments. I did find in Reddit that some comments would get harsh responses, but mostly I would get useful answers to questions.
Now using Mastodon and Lemmy/WefWef. Generally, like the experience with some issues with Lemmy in particular. Main issue right now: I hate having to scroll through read posts every time I open Lemmy or an app.
For me, I have a nice Twitter feed. Really nice, lots of good people and it makes me happy. Nearly none of them are on Mastodon so I'm having a hard time doing this anew. I expect a lot of those folks will have a hard time moving to Mastodon, but some have left for Instagram. Not the same. I have found a lot of the same forums from Reddit here, and some are empty so I hope to help populate.
I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space
Yes, Mastodon is microblogging like Twitter. Usually has longer character counts, my instance has 5000 which helps because I tend to get long-winded.
I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space
Yep. Federated Twitter is one of the best ways to describe it.
Twitter has become a toxic cesspit even before musks takeover. He just made things far worse to the point where it's basically just attempted doxing and permanent ad-hominem barrages. It's not worth any time.
