With the recent announcement of Twitter accepting Elon Musks bid to purchase the service, there's been quite a bit of an exodus from the service, and an uptick in a similar service called Mastodon.

I've had an account on the SDF instance for a few years. Not used it much, but I do like it, and since this announcement have been using it more as this influx of users is making things pretty interesting.

The thing that makes it cool is that it's not centralized -- a multitude of instances exist, running the software on their own servers and forming their own communities. They are all still, however, interlinked, in such a way that anyone on one instance can follow anyone on another instance; some draw an analogy to each person living in a particular apartment building, but everyone still being able to visit anyon anywhere else.

As mentioned above, I chose SDF as my instance, since, while I'm far from as skilled with *nix and other such subjects as the average user, I certainly feel both welcomed and among peers who will respect eachother and actually work to be friendly, as opposed to clamor for social media clout.

If you want to join me there I do have an invite link. https://mastodon.sdf.org/invite/quntr78y

Of course, you may want to hunt for you own instance, or, if you do join SDF and don't like it you can always change without losing anything. It's kind of wild how it all works together, and I think many of us who like BBSing also would enjoy this service.


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In article <626C0ED1.1.local-socialme@finalzone.ddns.net>,
"Kurisu" <kurisu@finalzone.ddns.net> wrote:

I've made it a habit to avoid wall-style social media like Facebook and Twitter anyway, by design they tend to promote controversy since there's either a nonexistent or nonfunctional dislike feature. It's not a
healthy way to engage with anything.

So long as I can visit it and steal your memes, I'm fine :P

Re: Re: Mastodon anyone?
By: Nkeck72 to Kurisu on Mon May 02 2022 08:13 am

I've made it a habit to avoid wall-style social media like Facebook and Twitter anyway, by design they tend to promote controversy since there's either a nonexistent or nonfunctional dislike feature. It's not a
healthy way to engage with anything.

It's funny you bring that up -- I'm actually against "dislike" functions all together, as I see them as ripe for abuse and providing no actual feedback, as compared to a comment that, even if from a complete jerk and said comment is really just outright hate, at least has an actual concept tied to it... and can be trivially removed.

Mastodon is much like twitter, no doubt about it, but with the federated nature you can block whole instances as well as particular users, and it defaults to just a "local" feed, thus, with a place like SDF, things are A LOT more geek focused. It's been nice so far.

Also, me? Memes? HA! I make one every 5 years and otherwise can't stand the things. They are abused to a point of ruining the media they originated from, so I long ago stopped being a fan.

Your the spirit of that comment, however, remains.
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Re: Mastodon anyone?
By: Kurisu to All on Fri Apr 29 2022 11:14 am


I'm not on SDF's instance, but you can follow me @vivians@mastodon.social if that works for you. I still use twitter and xpost from there though.

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