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One day a developer got entirely fed up with Twitter. His issues with it were manifold, but essentially boil down to a lack of community building, a centralized authority, and a lack of control to prevent online harassment. And if you need to be convinced how clueless Twitter can be managed, read here, in so far you have not seen for yourself the infuriating decisions Twitter has made on the topic of moderation.
So this developer decided to create his own Twitter-like platform, minus all the Twitter drawbacks. This new platform is called Mastodon, and while nowhere near the size of Twitter, it's steadily growing.
Some of the advantages of Mastodon:
So - who here is on a Mastodon instance? What's your experience so far? What are you missing from Twitter? Anyone willing to host a GM:S related instance? I'll admit I'm not on Mastodon yet - I never tweet, so I'm not sure why I should toot. But given a fun instance with fun like-minded people, that might change.
So this developer decided to create his own Twitter-like platform, minus all the Twitter drawbacks. This new platform is called Mastodon, and while nowhere near the size of Twitter, it's steadily growing.
Some of the advantages of Mastodon:
- Mastodon is decentralized. Anyone can start and host an instance (technically a community) anywhere, on e.g. a server they own. Its decentralized organisation makes it much harder to (ab)use the platform for political or commercial activities, and when instances are lost to government overreach, the damage is very limited to the platform as a whole. A downside from decentralization is that unless precautions are taken by instance owners, data from a single instance can be lost.
- Twitter has a single set of rules (or so they claim). With Mastodon, instance owners can create their own rules. You can pick your instance(s) on your personal preference of subject, language, rules, etc. Mastodon still allows following people on other instances and vice versa, and you can have multiple subscriptions.
- Instances can (but do not have to be) invite-only, allowing stronger control of who you're interacting with.
- Messages can be (but do not have to be) moderated, based on the instance owner's organization.
- Mastodon instance owners can block out users or instances (communities) they perceive as toxic. Users can also do that for themselves.
So - who here is on a Mastodon instance? What's your experience so far? What are you missing from Twitter? Anyone willing to host a GM:S related instance? I'll admit I'm not on Mastodon yet - I never tweet, so I'm not sure why I should toot. But given a fun instance with fun like-minded people, that might change.
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