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@phil__harmonic @hermes i think servers actually become pretty unimportant once you follow a handful of people. it’s just hard to find them in the first place if you’re on some barren mastodon gmbh server with 100k people

@hermes it’s just crazy to me that people would jump ship to some randomass invite only app whilst migrating all of “tpot” here would literally just involve everyone putting their mastodon @ on a shared csv that you can simply import to immediately replicate the whole operation

@hermes i also think your choice of server determines your experience here pretty hard. since there’s no algorithmic network effects it’s all voluntary self-association, you want to fill your local timeline with friendly faces. i was on mastodon.social before it was just “twitter but worse”. best to treat it as a different approach entirely

@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”

@hermes it actually makes a lot of sense! it’s just like email. on the app, it’s completely seamless, as mobile clients tend to be. on the web, it’s like webmail, and different servers are different providers. you can interact freely with anyone, but to use more server specific tools (like following) you gotta add them on your own server, just like adding email contacts

@taalumot nonetheless it is sometimes the more painful option, to engage and take personally the strange contortion of your texts towards essentially fascistic ends. do you have any advice for dealing with this?

@taalumot this resonates with me so hard. the last couple years for me have been a process of re-integrating with my ancestral practice, realising that it’s between me and my ancestors and entirely extricable from whatever weird religious/political agenda my coreligionists possess

@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

@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

@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 :(

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

they’re all sleeping on this

holy crap the mastodon ios app is incredible

when i say "web3" i'm referring not to the purported ideology but the trainwreck in actuality

i want my experience of the internet to be firmly rooted in web1, with some extremely cautious use of web2 (think spotify, though maybe not even that since the new hostile recommendations), and entirely absent of web3

i have never really been able to explain what the Gita is about, but what i take from it is that ethics and metaphysics are are same thing and also God

like cool, you have a nice slick app built on a promising protocol. nominally 'decentralised'. but idk whether to trust you if your whole thing is removing the speed bump sized moat, that requires maybe 1% tinkering mindset, but allows users actual autonomy

maybe this boat has already sailed. crypto ruined the word 'decentralisation' irreversibly

slightly concerned about indie internet culture being capitalist realismed as more people awaken to the senseless rule of big tech