GrymanOne t1_j11gjkh wrote on December 20, 2022 at 11:43 PM

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

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.

MysteriousBread1 t1_j11i89p wrote on December 20, 2022 at 11:55 PM

Neil Gaiman is on it (@neilhimself@mastodon.social), as is George Takei (@georgetakei@universeodon.com) and Paul Graham (@paulg@mas.to).

Blythe703 t1_j12j3bf wrote on December 21, 2022 at 4:48 AM

Stephen Fry too (https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry)

HanaBothWays t1_j11ho72 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 11:51 PM

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.

DrabDonut t1_j14rh3v wrote on December 21, 2022 at 5:41 PM

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