have you quit twitter yet?

mastodon is quite slow right now, presumbly bcz there's a surge of ppl joining or rejoining

decentralisation causes one single hiccup -- apparently enough to be offputting to many -- which is that right at the start you have to pick an "instance" to join up. like the gate you go through in. there's an element of luck here (for practical purposes and for accessing the main flow and building a timeline it doesn't matter which one you're in; but some are very robust and others are flaky and if you don't have ppl advising you there's no way of knowing which in advance; the populous ones are likely to stick around but i think also more likely get sluggish; the tiny ones in some weird language may be totally fine or totally flaky, esp.if you don't speak the language) (i think there are some specialist ones with limited access so best avoid them also) but it's not that hard to switch once you're in and know yr way round a bit better

timelines: exactly as with twitter, you track the world via yr own curated timeline -- so you have to find yr faves and follow them (with certain exceptions it doesn't matter if they're in a different instance); in addition (twitter doesn't have this) you can track the world via a local timeline (everything else posted in yr instance whether or not you follow them) and a federated timeline (literally everything else posted by anyone whether or not you follow them); the second moves very fast and is in many languages -- mainly japanese last time i was using mastodon a lot -- and generally incomprehensible, unless u read japanese i guess.

the main drawback of joining is that (like any new socmed platform) you will have to rebuild yr network (which takes time) and some ppl won't be there at all! the main drawback of rejoining is that most of the ppl i enjoyed reading were gathered round the helldude when he was banned from twitter a few years back and that little community went dark when he started a new twitter acount

is it daunting? maybe! but i am older than you (most likely) and i puzzled it out quick enuf so stop yr blubberin

i am @dubdob✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧

tweets are toots!

lol

at dubdobdee at mastodon dot social

agreed with NA, I follow mostly good people but Twitter still gives me a lot of anxiety and dread. a lot of leftist accounts really do seem to think everything is the end of the world and sometimes that attitude can just ruin your whole day. I think that as human beings we were not really meant to have the entire weight of the world on our shoulders especially when we do not have any power.

Can’t even work out the server thing on Mastodon and then when I got somewhere it wouldn’t accept my password :(

I’ll maybe try again

Or just check back in a decade or so

xp
haha fair enough and thank you for elaborating

tbh maybe it's less about incomprehension and more a more basic uncertainty about its value & appeal. i.e., "some are very robust and others are flaky and if you don't have ppl advising you there's no way of knowing which in advance" is more or less where I keep giving up. how did you pick an instance to start with? (ok I think I figured that out in the xpost of your id)

i gave it deep thought as you can see

I think the first thing I can across was like a furries server or something

unpossible

I’m going to try again on the big computer.

"mastodon is quite slow right now, presumbly bcz there's a surge of ppl joining or rejoining"

Yup, keeps timing out for me.

yeah eugen gargron sez he's awaiting delivery of a powerful new server

Good to know steps are being taken.

do we need an ilx-centric mastodon server or smth

yes get this sorted poster mh

i would rather use ilx

but tweets are now toots!

i will give mastodon a try if it survives the next few weeks lol.

I'm reading up on how it works. Seems like it'd work well with a number of small- or mid-sized servers, and the amount of traffic you'll get is completely dependent on what users on your server subscribe to. You can have the front page be a variation of the classic firehose ofall the toots (lol) from your server, plus those from all accounts that the users on your server subscribe to.

I think it'd scale super well with a myriad of small to mid sized servers with the most popular users not all being on the same ones. Obviously this is the opposite of what's happening.

It felt like I was picking the geocity I wanted to live in all over again. I’ll never use this thing.

I mean, we could collectively all join one instance, take a vote as to whether we want to keep it going, and then roll on or shut down

what would be the difference between that and ilxor.com

you could follow/retoot (?)/interact with other people not on ilx

i tried to sign up to the tribel offering the other evening.
very buggy and constant performance issues.
its going to take a lot for me to completely quit twitter.
i rarely see anything too unpleasant due to a small echo chamber setup on it.
a few news/journos + record labels + bands + producers + music nerds.
and little else.
makes my twitter experience rather enjoyable.

i would be super down for trying a ilxor mastodon (he says, not knowing anything)

i hate twitter and have started reading it compulsively even though its just people saying 'normalise breadsticks' or posting screenshots of sitcoms i've never heard of with the caption 'yass kween' and would be glad if this guy ruins it just enough so that it breaks my compulsion. I remember being hooked on FB years ago and then it got really boring all of a sudden so hopefully that happens soon and I can go back to only watching fashion shows on youtube.

people always think that whatever website will obsess them forever but like remember when nobody could stop posting on ilx and you would like try to post on a thread and every time would get the skipping messages thing and now the only thing anybody posts about are twitter drama and whether ilx is dead

you go girl

im not even being rude about ilx, it was obviously better than twitter which is just total gibberish

breadsticks should maybe be normalized

remember when nobody could stop posting on ilx and you would like try to post on a thread and every time would get the skipping messages thing

yes I do, rvturn

Deleted all my tweets - going read only from here on out.

Can't really quit Twitter per SE, all 16 of my accounts are banned.

I am going to be the last on there. I'll be reading the last tweet.

lightweight unless you *post* the last tweet

There really isn’t a comparable place to Twitter. Am I supposed to hop on Instagram and write like “the only slasher icon who believably eats ass is Jason Voorhees” underneath a photo of some nice leaves I saw

— Vinnie Mancuso (@VinnieMancuso1) November 4, 2022

^ perfect description of why I never liked Twitter right there!

There are literally infinite ways you can shape your own experience with twitter, and that is ONE of them. But ok.

He could just post a picture of Jason on Instagram and write the same thing for crying out loud. Hell, he could write a whole essay on it over there.

i signed up for post, haven't followed anyone yet, but the "posts" it's serving me make it seem like a parler or truth social for resistance libs lol

like, this was the first thing i saw when i logged in today: https://post.news/article/2J8SVsZ2IBvBJ2sXxIprQXFciTx

fucks sake.

lol get yer "You Don't Know Jack" trading cards here

mastodon is good imo

Getting better fast too.

As soon as people on ilx start posting Mastodon links instead of tweets I’ll have to switch

Tweetshelf is no longer free :(

I think this is related to Twitter charging to access its API, so sites that are built on it need to create revenue stream.

Tiwtter app got cross at my never checking it anymore, started sending me random tweets it thought I might like, so I uninstalled it.

is it weird to have not quit but to have the platform essentially beg/dare you to every day?