@pujz The reason they “hate Mastodon” is social, not technological. All the technological talk is justification

@taalumot hesitant to condemn friends but if they’re the kind of people to be turned off a place for cliquey reasons, then, well…

@taalumot fwiw the web experience is serviceable, but mobile is the best social media experience i’ve ever used. the only thing missing are my friends :(

@pujz I don’t NECESSARILY mean it in such a personal way, at least for most folks, but I do think there’s a pervasive “us vs. them” mentality on a general level, “them” being blue-team-coded censorshipcels, which, you know, obviously we are

@taalumot oh man. i just love censorship, it’s my favourite political activity, especially when it’s the state doing the censoring. that’s why i joined the “fed”iverse

@pujz LMAO FEDIVERSE

@taalumot jokes aside tho i suspected this was the case but didn’t really want to believe it. i’ve come to realise there are tech enthusiasts and tech people™️, freedom lovers and Freedom Lovers, etc and i land on the opposite side of that equation more often that not in tpotland

@pujz Well, if you’re just checking in today, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised how many more of us there are

@taalumot @pujz

thus far, of the two major successor states, mastodon seems the nicer.

@taalumot @pujz

at least in terms of initial community vibes.

@hermes @pujz Just stay away from the doomed warring mid servers with whom interaction is completely optional, and one finds a completely bucolic state of affairs.

Intensely preferable to being trapped in a boiling kettle of clout piranhas gnashing their teeth, if ya ask me.

@hermes @taalumot oh 100% - the biggest sell of mastodon is that insta-filters the engagement baiters. i’m still on bluesky but increasingly consider this my “main base”

@pujz @hermes I’m going to treat Bluesky akin to coming home from college and going to a new year’s party with the high school people.