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   Stephen Collins (trib@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2026 10:23:36 JST Stephen Collins

   Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

   My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

   A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

   This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

   May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2026 21:51:09 JST tyil

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     @trib@aus.social Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.Mastodon is a latecomer to the Fediverse, GNU Social would be more apt to be the early days. I'm familiar with the story of Mastodonters barging in and pretending the Fediverse is all them, though.This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007.Most of the people here don't want this place to be like Twitter, because Twitter sucks. We came here instead, because we like this better. If the Fediverse becomes more like Twitter, it will only inevitably be ruined in the same way.the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.Some people are, but Mastodon surely isn't, it's enshittification of this beautiful Fediverse.
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