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If you're one of those people reading this and thinking "oh here comes another alternative social media" just stop reading and steer clear. Mastodon is compatible with OStatus used…

Either the techbro journalists dont understand that, or they do and know their readers wont understand or care. Most Mastodon articles fail to even explain that its a server softwa…

For profit and centeralized. Hard pass. Is this the next Ello?

This is exactly the problem that is happening on the big english speaking Mastodon instances and the reason I left mastodon.xyz I went to a GNU Social instance that doesnt block an…

This is actually a really interesting perspective on Japanese fediverse. The article lacks nuance when talking about the "red" and "blue" sides. Seems like false dichotomy to me.

Matrix is my preference for sure. It's fresh and exciting. While XMPP is harder to talk people into trying

That's just trading one madness for another. You're missing my point. We should be promoting federation instead of trying to fragment what we have. Othetwise our shared social netw…

Calm down. You're free to block whatever you want for your instance. That's not my concern. If you want to ban certain politocal alignments or specific opinions then your free to d…

I see you making fun of my post Eugen. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99795655453246031 If I'm wrong about any of this tell me. There's nothing inherently wrong with a blocklist,…

Nothing is stopping you from making a new account but there is no account migration. Assuming you and your instance admin arent bad people (as in, your old account isnt deleted or …

This is where federation wins really. If your mastodon server wont come out of its bubble nothing is stopping someone from making a new server that does. Instances may die, but the…

Its a recent new server software and client for the StatusNet "fediverse". StatusNet and the protocols it uses are very old, and a small community of users have been there for like…

I typically just shout into the void and follow most people who engage with my posts. Its a big network out there

Lots of people across the fediverse like gaming. You just need to pick an instance that isn't heavy on censorship so you don't find yourself trapped in a small sandbox. Many Mastod…