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Yeah, but joining an instance is so hard guys. How am I supposed to know which one to join? What if I join the wrong one? The human brain was never meant to know more than one domain name.
The whole Internet should just be one single website so I don’t have to think. But I will complain about how only one rich guy owns that website, but I’ll do it on that website since it’s the “public square”.
You can have a gmail.com address, and send and receive emails between yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses without issues. Nobody really cares which provider you chose, and if you really want to, you can register your own domain and host email yourself.
If this doesn’t land, then the person you’re talking to probably has never used a computer.
That’s where I’m not 100% sure. Either each instance maintains a copy of the public square, or there is no public square each piece of content is hosted on one instance and viewable from other instances
any mastodon instances off the top of your head that have as little or less censorship as Twitter? Because I can think of some that beat Twitter in certain areas but none that beat it in all
People wanted a new Twitter and just completely ignored Mastadon. 🙄
i didn’t, I’m on Mastodon and would never consider Bluesky.
Well… They did get a new Twitter lol
Yeah, but joining an instance is so hard guys. How am I supposed to know which one to join? What if I join the wrong one? The human brain was never meant to know more than one domain name.
The whole Internet should just be one single website so I don’t have to think. But I will complain about how only one rich guy owns that website, but I’ll do it on that website since it’s the “public square”.
I want a decentralized democratic system but the only way to get there is to centralize power and give it to one entity!
/s
I think it’s better to explain instances as phone booths or conference rooms.
That’s an awful comparison.
It’s like email.
You can have a
gmail.comaddress, and send and receive emails betweenyahoo.comandhotmail.comaddresses without issues. Nobody really cares which provider you chose, and if you really want to, you can register your own domain and host email yourself.If this doesn’t land, then the person you’re talking to probably has never used a computer.
and just like with email if you choose the wrong domain you can’t send messages to people on mainstream domains without it being sent to spam.
Okay thank you
But they are just different entraces to the same “public square”: the fediverse
That’s where I’m not 100% sure. Either each instance maintains a copy of the public square, or there is no public square each piece of content is hosted on one instance and viewable from other instances
The bluesky conference room is muting participants in the conference call
Well yeah, they wanted a new twitter, not something different and potentially better.
I remember Mastodon gaining a lot during the Elonification of twitter. Doesn’t seem like it’s all bad. I don’t want to be even more doom pilled.
Mastadon branding sucks ass.
You take that back or I’ll make a mean toot /s
Mastodon dodged a bullet though. It could’ve been them.
any mastodon instances off the top of your head that have as little or less censorship as Twitter? Because I can think of some that beat Twitter in certain areas but none that beat it in all
No because I don’t use it. I never liked the Twitter format. 🤷♂️