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HanaBothWays t1_j11dj3w wrote

Reply to comment by GrymanOne in Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by geoxol

It’s not really that hard. If you can deal with using Discord where you can be on different servers and have different names and pictures for them, you can deal with Mastodon.

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GrymanOne t1_j11gjkh wrote

I'm 41 and I've worked in tech for over 20 years. I've done everything from sales, support, engineer, director of engineering, to where I am now as a solutions engineer for a large datacenter. Decentralized servers such as Mastadon have been around forever (see IRC, etc) but ease of use has always been a concern.

I'll use Mastadon, but I don't suspect people I care to follow like say, Stephen King, would also use Mastadon. However, I would love to be proved wrong.

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HanaBothWays t1_j11ho72 wrote

When I first started there, not a lot of prominent people were on there, but now with Musk’s shenanigans on Twitter there are a lot of big names moving there. All the big news services are posting there too. Government agencies are starting to post there.

King isn’t there yet but there is an account that reposts his Tweets there.

Also if you are in a tech field you are likely to find a lot of prominent people in your field there. I did and it’s actually a lot better for keeping up with my professional stuff than Twitter ever was. There’s a lot less clutter and things trying to advertise at me.

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DrabDonut t1_j14rh3v wrote

RemindME! 1 year “gloat if Stephen King is on Mastodon”

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small44 t1_j11tjao wrote

I don't have to make an account for every server I'm interested in and it's easy to switch between servers with the sidebar on discord

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HanaBothWays t1_j11tsw3 wrote

You don’t make an account for every server you’re interested in on Mastodon either, who told you you had to do that? You just follow servers you’re interested in to see what’s being posted there. Or individual accounts like on Twitter.

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small44 t1_j11w233 wrote

When I tried to post on multiple servers I had to create an account on every one of them.

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HanaBothWays t1_j11wrdu wrote

Dude you use it like Twitter, you post on your own timeline or in reply to other people. What’s this about trying to post on other servers.

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small44 t1_j11z3xw wrote

For example, I'm a person who likes hip-hop music, technology, and programming just to name a few but I want those themes to be separated. On discord, I can be on 3 servers about those themes, on Reddit on multiple subs, and on Facebook on multiple groups with a single account on each of those platforms.

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HanaBothWays t1_j11zrcq wrote

So it sounds like you use different social media platforms for different things. Why would you need another one to do everything for you, especially one that works mostly like Twitter?

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BrainKatana t1_j12x8lc wrote

To quickly interject here: the fact that you two are even having this exchange points to the reality of the issue being discussed.

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seenatcornerstore t1_j12y26t wrote

...Twitter has already been incredibly famous without whatever it is you're talking about. Following people rather than topics is honestly more natural

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small44 t1_j13r9a9 wrote

I never was a fan of Twitter. I like to be able to follow both people and topics,

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