Post #755524
2023-04-20 21:33 UTC
Replies (5)
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@feditips@mstdn.social 2023-04-20 21:33
There is technically still an option on the official app to "pick my own server", but it's much harder to read or notice, and new users will probably click the mastodon.social button without even understanding the other button. Mastodon.social just passed 1 million registered users about a week ago, out of a total network of approx 7 to 11 million users (dependiing on how you count them). Most of these users probably signed up via the official app. (2/6)
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@m0xee@social.librem.one 2023-04-21 11:53
@Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie But won't the federated nature make it even easier to migrate elsewhere in case of Musk-like buyout? It made people come here from Twitter in waves and this time they have to learn how to use new software, have to pick an instance, have no way to keep their followers… In case mastodon.social get new admins, people should already know other instances they like, and they can keep their social connections. @folkerschamel@mastodon.social @seth@s3th.me @feditips@mstdn.social
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@m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net 2023-04-21 12:53
@Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie No, not in one month, I'm not that fruitful, 4k total, in 2 years probably 😅 Stats might be skewered because this instance uses an old version of Masto. But I do like it here! I'm all into what a lot of people here are in, like cats and obscure computer architectures… And even for me it wasn't easy to make my mind up. While I was reading stuff on Twitter a lot, I never had an account I was looking for some alternative that is more serious about privacy. In fact it was ProtonMail that pointed me in the right direction. They had a Mastodon account (they have left since, but now returned) so I realized that a decentralized alternative exists, then I realized that "social" thing by Purism uses the same protocol and I said: "Why not try it?" Again, I am tech-savvy, I'm online well since the 90-ies and even for me making a choice of instance (will this one really be the right one for me?) was a little confusing — self hosting the thing you know nothing about is out of the question. A lot of people used centralized media all their life (doesn't necessary mean they are bad people) — I can't even imagine what it's like for them. I do agree that funneling everyone to a single instance is bad practice and something is to be improved. Still, making a person pick something without giving them a taste of it first and not giving them time to hang around is confusing. Some might thing that it's a good filter to keep outsiders away, but I don't think that way at all, Fedi deserves to keep it spirit, but it doesn't mean it has to be an obscure closed circle. On top of that, who does it keep out? I don't consider myself not smart or knowledgeable enough, I wasn't born into the Web 2.0 things, I lived through them (and didn't like them), but I signed up not long ago and I remember quite well that even I had doubts. @m0xee@social.librem.one @folkerschamel@mastodon.social @seth@s3th.me @feditips@mstdn.social
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@m0xee@social.librem.one 2023-04-21 13:02
@Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie Sorry for using my other account to reply, but I really don't like it when I have to split my reply into five parts when it gets long and 500 characters is the limit I have on Librem Social instance.
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@mike@thecanadian.social 2023-04-22 05:27
@Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @folkerschamel@mastodon.social @seth@s3th.me @feditips@mstdn.social Yup, then my job would be how to get rid of all my money before I die. Not a bad gig.