Kevin Beaumont
Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use,
has no venture capital investors,
has no shareholders to answer to,
has no growth targets,
with a web interface with zero cookies,
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in.
Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
Antoinne Sterk
@GossiTheDog hear! hear!
Paolo Redaelli
@GossiTheDog
Very nice. My only issue is that the #Fediverse is not confined to #Mastodon although it is the most prominent implementation
@selea
Internet Rando
I keep explaining to IRL people why I'm on Fedi, and that there's no "Engagement Engineering" so ofc I put it down after a while, naturally.. THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE..
Weaving my (own, personal) social network with "tools" is so much more healthy than being on a corporate attention treadmill with "products"!
Volunteer to help your local admins, and/or contribute. It's worked for public radio, it can work for public internet..
✌️
BrianKrebs
@GossiTheDog On that note, if you're able to but not financially supporting your favorite server and the people who are toiling to keep it healthy, shame! Fix that now!
gyptazy
"free to use" - just like all other social media platforms, too - at last from a casual user perspective. But what is the difference? Influencer don't get paid here in the Fediverse (except of maybe some very rare ones for passive product placement). As a result, the "mainstream" influencers are missing - including their follower base. If this is a pro or con probably depends on the point of view.
curmudgeonaf 🇨🇦
@GossiTheDog Now if only it had any mechanism at all for discovery, beyond hashtags.
curmudgeonaf 🇨🇦
@GossiTheDog Perhaps some people want to program their computer in Assembly, and then build a Unix kernel from scratch and run their own Acirvity Pub server, but other people like the convenience of not doing everything the hardest way possible.
:blobcathug:
Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️
@GossiTheDog @CyberpunkLibrarian Once again, I'll remind folks that Mastodon isn't free for the folks running the instances.
We've had dozens of small and medium instances close up this year. Why do you think that is? Maybe those admins got tired of paying to keep the lights on for the folks who keep telling everyone it's free?
Got a few bucks? Send it to your instance admin. Surely $20 or $30 for the year won't be a burden. They will appreciate it.
Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️
@GossiTheDog @CyberpunkLibrarian That's great for you. And it's free? Wow! I'd love to get hooked up with whatever ISP/host connects it to the Internet.
I guess I'm just reminding everyone on behalf of the other admins who actually have to foot the bill for this.
BigD
@GossiTheDog forums? lol
tyil
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Not everything has to be shit.You can help here by realizing #Mastodon is just a part of what makes the #Fediverse great. There's many more alternatives, many of them older than Mastodon, and most of them better in several ways too. Please help in making the Fediverse less shit by understanding more of it.
翠星石
Petra van Cronenburg
@richaesthetic @GossiTheDog Everybody can donate to Mastodon and every instance. No donations, no Fediverse. I saw instances die because they had no more money for their costs/work.
Rich Aesthetic
@GossiTheDog crazy that it’s free. People spend time and money hosting servers. So that’s valued at 0.00?
Joseph Meyer
@GossiTheDog This toot makes part of me want to invite persons on FB to join Mastodon. But, I hesitate, since they in turn might invite persons I would rather not see on Mastodon. It’s a conundrum.
HJ
@GossiTheDog Mastodon is still the best social network around 💜
mancas
@GossiTheDog For me Mastodon is perfect. I like to be there and i like my friends there.
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.