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Hey, it's my day to be the Mastodon Guy! But for real, small, federated social media is so freaking pleasant compared to Facebook and friends. No, the kid from my 8th grade soccer team isn't on it, nor is my next door neighbor, or my kid's nanny from 3 moves ago, but that's fine. Sure, I wish more of the authors I like to follow were on there, and it's not a great way to call out megacorp support teams when something breaks horribly, but I'm completely OK with that tradeoff.

What I get instead is a collection of small, resilient servers where the feed algorithm is FIFO, there's no advertising, and moderation is local.[0] It's my favorite parts of the old Internet before things got centralized and enshittificated.

I hope megasocial media is over. I doubt it, but a guy can wish. That doesn't mean all social media is dead.

[0]Mastodon doesn't have moderation. Individual servers do. That's the way it should be.

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WorldPeas a day ago | parent | next [-]

I just wish an owner of a journal of record like Condé Nast would "adopt" a Mastadon instance, they already have Reddit but that's so impersonal.

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kstrauser a day ago | parent | next [-]

I agree. There's probably money to be made running an enterprise Mastodon hosting service.

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krapp a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have seen some journalists and orgs move to Mastodon but the culture being what it is, people will be hostile to anything that looks like an attempt by corporate entities or propaganda outlets to capture and commoditize the platform.

And honestly, I'm fine with it. Corporate media is a cesspool. It can all choke on its own fetid stench and die for all I care.

	▲	WorldPeas 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		right, but save for.. threads federation... there's been trepidation in my more normal friends to use anything other than the shibboleth. I'd rather an incompetent like Nast manage the platform than a company like Facebook that knows all too well how to leverage their scale. Anyways they're one of the better ones.. from what I've been told.

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jeromegv a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Same for me. No algo, no ads. I follow who i want. No surprises in my feed.

Just like RSS, I get exactly what I want.