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   Jason Koebler (jasonkoebler@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 01:44:20 JST Jason Koebler

   I wrote about my first two months on Mastodon. I was a Mastodon hater because I thought it would be weird, complicated, or dead. It's been none of those things.

   I'm ashamed I didn't join earlier and I'm ashamed I haven't been telling people to join it, because it's a version of the internet and social media I've long advocated for with my reporting: decentralized, portable, user controlled, not corporate:

   https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 01:52:54 JST pettter

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     @jasonkoebler Good article, but small correction: you would not, in fact, keep all of your posts when moving servers - they would remain on the server they were posted on, for various protocol reasons. I believe there's ongoing work to make this possible, but its not an easy task, unfortunately.

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     onreact (onreact@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:23:39 JST onreact

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     @jasonkoebler Ouch. I had to enter Reader View on Firefox to make that article bearable and readable.

     Monospaced fonts used for programming and white text on black backgrounds plus huge cluttered neon colored images are for geeks only hurt my eyes and I'm not even 50 yet!

     I can't reshare it that way but congrats being converted to Masto.

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     Jason Koebler (jasonkoebler@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:23:39 JST Jason Koebler

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     @onreact fwiw, this is pretty mean and the kind of thing I was talking about when I said I mostly haven’t experienced this sort of thing on mastodon, and the kind of thing I was worried about when coming here

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     DeeAnn Little (chillicampari@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:23:41 JST DeeAnn Little

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     @jasonkoebler Just a quick side note that I really appreciate the higher contrast on the site which in my case helps a *lot* with readability (though I know everyone has a different use case).

     Also, welcome to the Fediverse! I like the way you demonstrated that it's not generally as hard as people think it is to get a handle on it and participate. I know it can be pretty intimidating, especially at first. But I am glad you gave it the chance. There is more- but I figure you will find it. :)

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