Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left

Post by TheJoYo » Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 11:12 PM UTC

throwaway894345 wrote: post #180

INTPenis wrote: post #13

I've hosted a mastodon instance since 2017 and I see one general misunderstanding over and over, on mastodon or on fediverse related subreddits. People think it's a completely new concept. People seem to have forgotten, or not been part of, all the message boards we used to have during the late 90s and all throughout the 2000s. The ONLY thing Mastodon brings to this is federation. You used to have accounts on over a…

Can I browse another server from mastodon? it seems I can only choose from my feed (people i follow), the local feed (my server), or the global feed. This is a really rough experience because my server is one of the big generic servers so there is no specific discussion and indeed it’s mostly people and bots screaming into the void, and of course the global feed is the same except the volume of posts is much larger a…

Post by bionade24 » Sat, Feb 06, 2021, 7:21 AM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #222

bionade24 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the fediverse has at least one per instance, often more. I would even go as far saying the fedi has more mods per users. They're still only mods, for the instance they're on, though.

I have never seen pornography on Facebook. I saw pornography of very dubious legality within seconds of opening a public Mastodon server during my first time checking out the fediverse. It was enough to convince me never to use Mastodon again.