Post #1452252
2022-11-06 02:21 UTC
Replies (32)
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@sitharus@cloudisland.nz 2022-11-06 02:36
This also is very much like early Twitter. I joined in 2007. Twitter was a cheap group SMS service, it connected you to your friends not to companies and celebrities. I get that I’m not like most people. I grew up in a very conservative rural area so the internet has always been my connection to friends and peer groups, a way to converse with people rather than a way to escape or get famous.
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@santiago@mastodon.uy 2022-11-06 02:38
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz
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@Stephen@moosetodon.com 2022-11-06 02:38
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Absolutely. People claiming Mastodon is a Twitter alternative are imo not being realistic. However, Mastodon can be a replacement for Twitter for some people.
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@thebradking@writing.exchange 2022-11-06 02:52
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz same. This feels like a BBS and a message board together, and I kinda love it. Definitely more people centered, but not Group-Think pushed by the algorithm!
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@merc248@mstdn.social 2022-11-06 03:01
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz @zkat@toot.cat i still catch myself pining for those netsplits from IRC
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@MrsMouse@social.dsmouse.net 2022-11-06 03:46
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Hell yes.
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@thatchcolom@toot.community 2022-11-06 04:15
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Some would say the golden age, some would not. I liked the early internet, you had to hunt not grocery shop.
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@dragonflyknot@social.linux.pizza 2022-11-06 04:21
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz I dolike this. Reminds me of the early days of the Internet in the early to mid 90s. I really need a Netscape Navigator though. Firefox has too much bloat.
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2022-11-06 04:22
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz so very much this. Old Unix grey beard here. "I remember when..." No, but seriously, Mastodon can't be all things to all people. It was never meant to be a "Twitter clone" or anything other than... Itself. Some will find a nurturing space here for the kind of connections they want, and some won't. So be it. Welcome, and thanks for putting into words what a lot of us were feeling.
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@radicalxstitch@aus.social 2022-11-06 04:27
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz I don't feel like a product on here.
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@Ca_Gi@mastodon.bida.im 2022-11-06 04:28
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz It's more human :-)
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@ocean@raru.re 2022-11-06 04:37
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Hell yeah Fediverse is internet without the corpo shit that has bloated our online interactions for far too long
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@vaguelyspecific@aus.social 2022-11-06 04:40
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Yes! I’m enjoying this little trip back to the ‘old days’ when the internet was our playground.
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@cat_news@mas.to 2022-11-06 03:25
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz it absolutely makes the conversations feel more natural
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@saniac@mastodon.social 2022-11-06 02:49
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz 💯
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk 2022-11-06 05:20
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz New here on mastodon, from twitter. I find your explanation really useful --- it helps me to work with the system according to its design principles, rather than fighting it. Thanks!
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@busesarecoolactually@toot.community 2022-11-06 05:36
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz you really can’t search? I assumed I wasn’t getting results because the servers are all bogged down with new members.
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@maylikhoe@mastodon.social 2022-11-06 05:46
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz I was just telling @rarar@mastodon.social this today! it has old internet vibes and that gives me feeellliiiiings
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@ianbobmorris@mastodon.social 2022-11-06 05:54
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz i'm here because people i like am here
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@zoeysaurusrawr@tech.lgbt 2022-11-06 05:55
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz I believe this will be a good thing in the end. I’ve missed the internet we grew up with because of the microcosms. Microcosms can have their own culture that isn’t subject to the opinions of several hundred million people that don’t get the nuances of a social circle.
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@kennon@tabletop.vip 2022-11-06 06:01
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz This. So much this.
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@wally@mastodon.social 2022-11-06 06:08
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz not sure why I never thought about the no algorithms bit but it makes so much sense why the timeline feels right on mastodon.
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@patrickcmiller@mas.to 2022-11-06 06:07
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Damn. Nailed it. Feels like 1990 but with some now.
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@BronJovi@aus.social 2022-11-06 06:41
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz 1000000% this. My partner and I have been squealing about the old web vibes for a few days. I feel like I have returned home :ablobcatrave:
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@angiedraws@socel.net 2022-11-06 06:46
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz I hadn't been so excited about an Internet platform and community in many years.
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@aotearoa_ben@mastodon.nz 2022-11-06 06:46
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz My draft Spinoff post on this whole thing is titled "Hear me out: Mastodon is terrible and you love it."
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@Campbellgordon@mastodon.nz 2022-11-06 07:21
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz that's what I'm getting too. This feels like I should have MSN messenger open somewhere and incubus playing through windows media player. It's a nice touch of nostalgia.
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@NoahAJoling@sunny.garden 2022-11-06 07:39
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz mIRC, msn, Myspace, vampirefreaks,… I miss those days. But your right. Mastodon kinda gives me that late 90’s/early 00’s vibe and oh my I love it! 🖤
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@bcxpro@hachyderm.io 2022-11-06 07:40
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz so I'm back at a BBS connected to FidoNet. Nice!
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@orbiteleven@mastodon.green 2022-11-06 07:41
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz very true. Hopefully we can achieve the best of both worlds with democratic content moderation while improving discoverability through federation
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@bartcollet@mstdn.social 2022-11-06 08:30
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Chaotic because it mimics real life, so much more natural than other platforms?
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@marcosflobo@hachyderm.io 2022-11-06 08:39
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz 100% what you say. I'm coming from those days too. I'm still new at Mastodon and some questions are coming to my mind. If there's no ads (a fact that I love) and no algorithms (another fact that I love), how the infrastructure of Mastodon is being paid?