Small tip I don’t see mentioned is don’t be too afraid to make multiple accounts and try out a few places before you settle. Nothing says you can’t do that. You don’t have to make any permanent decisions when starting out.
Join a largish instance and do some networking. My instance of choice is an invite-only one that a friend invited me to.
I just want with tech.lgbt, seemed obvious since I’m a queer tech nerd.
So far my problem with Mastadon and the Fediverse as a whole, though, is a seeming lack of goth/freak/alternative/underground culture, which is my main interest in online social spaces, but I’m making due, and as someone who hasn’t really enjoyed microblogging in the past, I find myself using Mastadon more and more lately and really digging it.
As a person who does not use Twitter, is Mastodon worth checking out? Or is it just Twitter: Fediverse Edition (Also Without Elon Musk!)
It is twitter:fediverse edition, but without the algorithm showing you content you’re interested in so you just get random thoughts from unknown people. Some people prefer it that way, I personally struggle finding useful or interesting things in my feed.
Half of the “utility” comes from following people and hashtags that interest you. From there, use boosts and such to follow the people that continue to be fun to read. I haven’t gotten bored with my feed since taking a more active approach to choosing what I see.
I’ve initially followed hashtags and then my feed was filled with absolute crap since everyone tags even irrelevant things all the time, not to mention posts in other languages (but not marked as such so they don’t get filtered). Like following gaming, steam, linux is just asking for trouble, but even if you follow something smaller you don’t get stuff about the game - you get stuff about people that like that game. Following steamdeck just filled my feed with people complaining about it or saying how its collecting dust for them.
Then I started following people instead and as few hashtags as possible. Now my feed is 40% them talking about their pets, kids, tech stacks or daily representation issues or anxiety, 30% is rants about social networks and fediverse, 20% actual tech news and 10% is sometimes actual interesting new content or pictures.
Maybe its a learning curve, maybe I just have different expectations since whenever I bring it up people just respond “it is its own thing, not twitter”. It’s not bad, but it’s not really what I want either.
Agreed with this.
A few years back it seemed better: fewer people meant recognised faces, regular chats, and almost a community feeling. I was in some kind of Linux instance.
Being much younger than most threw people off though, and I ended up feeling a little…on-the-outside and left.
I hopped on a week back and it feels so different now. Less community-oriented and all I find interesting is searching a hashtag and leaving.
I don’t know, maybe reddit (before the death) and lemmy have spoiled me, it just seems like random thoughts above all now.
I look for one that allows or protects offensive and insulting statement.
There is a very large difference between what is offensive and what is criminal.
Hate speech does not exist, people use that to silence different views, that is why there is no universally recognize definition of the term that all sides agree on.
Hey there, if you think hate speech isn’t real, then our instance isn’t for you. Please fuck off somewhere else.
I guess you know that account is from another instance? I understand our rules are there for remote users as well, but nevertheless I suppose there are other ways to remind Beeple as well as “Bee-motes” of them. You know, Beehaw philosophy and-so-on.
I personally can think of two ways, mostly differing in how much time you waste on typing a response. The second example (below) is the most efficient and therefore recommended one if your time and or patience momentarily come at a premium.
Example 1: On the instance on which you are replying to someone’s post, de admin/mod team does believe hate speech exists. You might disagree it exists (or just not like the term), but the rules as well as our philosophy is built on values that reject it. Please be aware of that when you interact with our server, unless you wish for the team to take actions against you posting/replying here.
Example 2: Hey there, if you think hate speech isn’t real, then our instance isn’t for you.
Please be aware of me meaning all this in good faith, @Gaywallet@beehaw.org. Have a nice evening!
Yes, I’m aware they are from another instance, as I just banned them. Making the claim that hate speech doesn’t exist is either so naive that they’re simply going to cause a lot of trouble on our instance with the educational burden they need to learn to be better, or it’s a statement based in the tolerance or even promotion of hateful material. Either way, they don’t belong here and I want it to be clear to anyone else who sees this and agrees with OP that they understand they are not welcome, either.
GOAT
That just leads to a toxic community. No thanks. Also the “Hate speech does not exist” thing is certainly a take.
