Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Late to the party for my own story, but in case you missed it, here’s how one engineer within Twitter told me the platform is going to break. What do you think?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

Sometimes I think we have overthought why people use/used social media. More than half the time, I just wanna pull down with my thumb and see something unexpected or interesting or that I want to respond to. For all its cultural importance, I think Twitter’s popularity (among a certain set of people) was mostly about being a really good place to swipe down your thumb. Aaannddd I kind of can’t believe how quickly Mastodon is serving that same purpose for me … and actually more interesting?

So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.

It's money well spent

#feditips I've seen a few people apologize for moving instances and I just want to say that that's not necessary! Mastodon servers aren't competing with each other for users or advertising dollars. Moving around to find a community or vibe that makes you comfortable is what this is all about. tech.lgbt in particular has had a fairly large number of former users leaving to start their own instances and I think that's awesome, actually

tech folks please resist the urge to create centrally automated blocklists

i know it is tempting to centralize the decentralized but that is extremely not what we are about in the fediverse

it's important that the sharing of information between instances happens between human admins who can make judgment calls about how authentic and relevant information is.

@ariadne Blowing my own trumpet a little here 🎺 but if you have a name.pn profile for sharing your name & pronouns it will automatically do this for you if you add your Mastodon profile to your onward links

you would like to "verify" yourself on the fediverse? great, no problem.

1. go to namecheap.com
2. register a domain, get their cpanel hosting or whatever.
3. put some website up on said domain, include something like <a href="[YOUR FEDIVERSE PROFILE LINK HERE]" rel="me">Follow me on the Fediverse!!!!!11111oneoneone.</a> in your HTML. the rel="me" is important.
4. link to your website in your fediverse profile.
5. the software will mark your relationship as verified, have a nice day

myself and a few others built this in 2018, seriously, we solved this problem years ago. it is how the internet works.

📣 It's time to boost your games & stuff!

Please make toots for your itch.io projects: include a direct itch.io link, some image/video, and mention @itchio so we can find your posts to boost!

So... this morning I had more notifications waiting for me in Mastodon than I did in Twitter. And all the notifications on Twitter are people telling me Mastodon will never get enough users to matter.

I tried to explain daylight savings time to my 4 year old and it was 1000x harder than explaining death or gender identity