Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. The lack of algorithm allows me to customize as needed without being rugswept by hidden policies or needing to meet a schedule. It's also easy to move from one server to another if you're not feeling you fit in with one.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks The only one now. Where else to talk about kimchi ?
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes, mostly.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks When I left the corporate world for a nonprofit, I killed all my social media accounts because I didn’t need them for work anymore.
At the time, I had to delete every post, every Like, every repost. 10,000 Instagram posts. 22,000 tweets. Countless Facebook posts. It was arduous but wonderful to be free of it.
Mastodon has given me the news and community I wanted but never got from the others. I can listen and support and also be seen. I like it here.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks yes and yes! I love it!
I do want some more comrades discussing Swedish politics. But apart from that I am happy :)
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks
Yes, definitely. 2 active accounts (Mastodon & GoToSocial) -
Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes, and yes.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks @lilithsaintcrow Yes and yes.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
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@LianaBrooks 100%. I’ve only used Mastodon for around 4 years and haven’t looked back.
@andrewbriscoe @LianaBrooks me toó, no need of anything else here since three or four years ago
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes. I don't really use social media to keep up with people I know in person (I prefer email for that), and I'm not huge on cultivating viral amounts of followers. That said I've found a good group of people to interact with here, and generally enjoy the vibes. It is working for me.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Nearly 200 boosts and comments.... I'd say it's working for you. I'm happy if I get 1 boost or like. Comments are almost zero.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Absolutely, and absolutely.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes and yes.
It's the first Social Media I ever used, although I've been on the Internet since 1993, and into professional IT from 2000.
For some reasons, I simply never trusted the antisocial commercial platform bullshit engines from the outset. Thus, I was spared that experience.
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. I love it. But I miss pop culture, stars, art, music.
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Yes. Only social media. Mastodon is entirely sufficient once you get a good collection of follows.
@mastodonmigration @LianaBrooks 34k follows is impressive, how did you manage that?
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks it’s been the only one I use since early 2020, ditching X and FB back then has been a blessing
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks Its my secondary cause I really like #loops too, but I love #mastodon
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Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?
@LianaBrooks yes and yes
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@LianaBrooks Yes, it is and it is working for me.
You do however have to curate the accounts you follow and choose hashtags to follow. There is no algorithm on the #fediverse, you are the algorithm.
Reply to posts and boost posts by others that you find interesting and find relevant for other people who follow you. That is how you can make it work for yourself and others.
@alterelefant @LianaBrooks same. It is my ONLY social media at this point.
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@scottjenson I think making UX improvements to DMs is a great idea.
One of the biggest privacy problems with Mastodon DMs now is that people accidentally make them public.
Separating the private mention UI from the public posting UI will probably avoid a huge percentage of those user errors.
It'd be a big win for privacy.
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@scottjenson encryption that still works if one of the parties changes fediverse servers seems like it maybe technically challenging
I also would note that a lot of my interactions on the Fediverse are not very “microblogging” focused. Ie this response isn’t a blog post.
I largely use DMs here for private but non sensitive content (like “hey your url is broken” or “you have a typo on that post”
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This reddit thread is a ride. https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1r916ls/could_i_dig_deep_enough_to_keep_a_pallet_of/
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@scottjenson Thanks for asking! I'm a big fan of Encrypting All The Things, but my impression here is that the dangers of PMs on Mastodon have more to do with the potentially confusing UX, so I think addressing the UX issues would help the most in the short term.
Ultimately, I want users to be able to assume "private" means encrypted, so I'm very glad that's part of the plan. Yes, people can use Signal, but there's still a need to privately transmit one's Signal username at a minimum. Also, private threads can stem from public threads, so it's natural to have some facility for privacy here. Finally, I'm a huge Signal fan, but its centralization means a single point of failure, and makes it a huge target for authoritarian state actors, and I worry about it going down or being compromised.
I would like to see more visual distinction between public and private posts, like different coloring, so fewer people confuse them.
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@scottjenson I must request encryption, because even though I don't need it right now. ...
A - you never know when you might need it
B- if I did, I might feel really uncomfortable telling you the reason, so I'm gonna assume that I'm piping up for some of those folks.
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@jfred You're not the only person asking for this. It's a resonable suggestion (but I can't comment on the implementation complexity)
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@scottjenson My take is encryption is important, but not important enough that you shouldn't make UX improvements before having it
I particularly would like to see the list of mentions decoupled from the list of recipients, though I wonder if that might cause problems with replies from some software... but still
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@mray Well first of all we have a shipping product (warts and all) and improving it is important to do even outside of encryption (I mean I hear your point but I'm saying we'll improve the UX independently as, honestly, it's got lots of issues that need fixing.)
But I agree with you empathically that proper key management is a horribly difficult thing to get right and almost always makes the UX very challenging to "be seemless"
