@Gargron I think the best way to conceptualize it to #twittermigration folks is that it’s like if your Twitter feed was only switching between Communities you’re part of, never a single simultaneous feed of every topic unsorted on top of each other like Twitter. So on Mastodon, you only jump into an individual content category you want to focus on at a given time.

@Gargron I think a lot of the press is still confused. The articles I've seen still tend to refer to Mastodon as if it were one system instead of a lot of interconnected ones, and they only mention the idea of federation in passing if they mention it at all.

@Gargron I hope you don't make a massive ban for telling the secret truth of governments. Got me?

@Gargron I also think it's important for we newcomers to respect that Mastodon has its own cultures and communities that flourished before the Great Twitter Diaspora. Mastodon shouldn't be approached with a sense of making it over in the image of a more familiar platform, but augmented by what new people have to offer. Personally, I'm in awe of the warmth and friendly help being offered so readily, very much appreciated.

@Gargron and all it took was the example of an unruly billionaire trashing the bird site like a bull in a china shop

@Gargron Thank you for creating this. I hope it takes off as the platform we all had hoped Twitter would be.

@Gargron I am getting a lot of timeouts and 524 errors by using any App or in browser making Mastodon almost impossible to use. Do you know if there is a plan to improve server capacity by time?

@Gargron I am getting a lot of timeouts and 524 errors by using any App or in browser making Mastodon almost impossible to use. Do you know if there is a plan to improve server capacity by time?

@Gargron I am getting a lot of timeouts and 524 errors by using any App or in browser making Mastodon almost impossible to use. Do you know if there is a plan to improve server capacity by time?

@Gargron I am getting a lot of timeouts and 524 errors by using any App or in browser making Mastodon almost impossible to use. Do you know if there is a plan to improve server capacity by time?

@gargron But that was the theory behind cryptocurrency mining, and yet we've seen the distributed control slowly being eroded and replaced by a couple of super-giants.

There is scope for that to happen with your baby, too, if one or two specific instances decide to invest resource in responsiveness and scalability, and go on to appeal to a wider audience.

@Gargron

Your wish is my command. :blobcatheart:

@Gargron It did in India several years ago. This is not the first mass twitter migration

@Gargron sure
Elon did us all a great opportunity

@Gargron
Just got on here. Learning the ropes.

@Gargron and we now see Dorsey’s is pushing his Bluesky “decentralized social media platform” initiative as the next step in the evolution of social media platforms. Wonder where he got the idea from? :ablobwink:

@Gargron

> It's a great opportunity [..] social media can be done differently [..] protocol not under control of any single company.

A protocol that after standardization was lost control of, to the extent that any additional extension lives mostly only in codebases making broad interoperability ever harder to achieve.

No coordinated, productive dev community. One app, Mastodon, somewhat in control of their fate. Is it a Yahoo? With all the CEO's, CTO's, serial entepreneurs now gushing in?

@Gargron loving it here so far

@Gargron hey there! I would love to know if I'm going to be able to join this server at some point in the future, right now it just gives me a Forbidden error. Guess you're having a couple of busy days right now but like in the future? Next month? 😄

@Gargron Similar to how email is being coopted by Google, I can see a situation where some major company creates a Fediverse server that is so good that everybody uses it. Then they'll turn off federation and we're back to where we were before.

Google already did it with XMPP.