@Gargron can we please get toot importing when we migrate to a new server? :)

@Gargron Thank you for creating an equal space!

@Gargron It actually is relying on the strongest instinct of us: feeling of indigenousness. You can create your space or have an impact on how your space is moderated or designed. So after all these "metaverse" bs, the public speaking space with decentralized control is giving people something other than forced interaction.

@Gargron But explaining the differences in philosophy and operation will not be easy. Twitter wasn't especially intuitive either.

@Gargron this was a great idea. Thank you!

@Gargron any insights about reducing storage footprint of federated content? (check: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9567)

It’s becoming extremely expensive for a small independent team/org to run an instance.

@Gargron Yes people are starving for a better way.

@Gargron Being an open source app was definitely a selling point.

I used and appreciated it back in the 2018, but now I see that almost all the people I used to interact with at the time meanwhile had left. How to make it more engaging?

@Gargron I didn't join to complain, but I don't think Mastodon is going to shine as much as you think it will. I joined in June and I have already quit three times in frustration. This may be different, but it is not a better way. Mastodon is not intuitive to use. It feels like running through a maze. It's also slow and I occasionally have to refresh my browser because the page just failed to load. And the mobile app doesn't have all the features available on the web. Mastodon needs more work.

@Gargron

or #government

see e.g.

https://search.tech.blog/2021/10/23/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-presents-idea-for-government-regulation-that-all-search-engine-algorithms-should-display-search-results-in-reverse-chronological-order

@Gargron Twitter has been my main thing and may continue to be, but after everything that's happened this past week, I figured I had to check the joint out.

The place is a little confusing, tbh, but I may yet get the hang of it.

In the meantime, I'm thinking of Mastodon as my Go Bag, in case the house is well and truly on fire.

@Gargron I know there was a huge surge around when Trump was making everything awful online, but all the options for an app weren't that functional. Coming back to it is pretty nice.

@Gargron hi

@Gargron just learning

@Gargron All thanks to your hard work. But as I think you yourself said once somewhere, it has to now evolve beyond your vision, so it doesn't succumb to the same monovision and monocultural fails that impacted Twitter.

@Gargron For someone who remembers USENET, this is not new at all.

@Gargron agreed ,it's time for mastodon!

@Gargron AND...
It will strain every tendon - stretch every sinew - abuse every muscle - and light up every synapse in the system so fasten your belts, you're in for a ride!

@Gargron drake love this