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Vivaldi Social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

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It's Just Me
I'm trying to convince the last friends I have left on Facebook, X, Threads, or BlueSky to join the Fediverse. Some have tried but felt a sense of loneliness. Nowadays, many people are so used to doing what algorithms suggest that they can no longer make independent choices.
My timeline here, on the other hand, is beautiful.
I see what I want, I follow people who post what I like, and no one tells me what I should do. Freedom may come with a "cost," but whatever it is, it's worth the effort. Always.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialNetworks
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Tipa

@me I have gotten a LOT of pushback from friends on BlueSky about using Mastodon. They call it an unfriendly, judgey place with a lot of unwritten rules that crossing any makes you a pariah.

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It's Just Me
@Tipa@gamepad.club The only unwritten rule is: do no harm to others. Then, of course, there are extremists here too, as in all contexts. People who are not used to using alt-text should be guided, not attacked, and unfortunately, this sometimes happens in the Fediverse. In polarizing social platforms, there is a tendency towards aggressiveness and partisanship. Here, I see that many people seek positivity and constructiveness, acceptance, and participation.
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Tipa

@me I tried a few Mastodon hosts before I got to my current one. My first one had every bad thing people say about Mastodon -- I was informed of the rules I was breaking frequently. So I left, eventually ended up here. Lots of people have a bad experience and just leave forever.

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MylesRyden

@Tipa @me

Always sorry to hear that people have bad experiences, but in this case it is the fault of the people, not the platform. The mute/block button (which I wish was more prominent in the interface) takes care of those people (for the most part)

I have seen a very positive uptick in Mastodon over the last month or two. Seems like lots of new actual people and many more organizations coming on board, my timeline gets more interesting every day.

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Tipa

@MylesRyden @me you're absolutely right; it is the people, and Masto is my main social media currently. Many people won't take the time to find their Masto home, though, not when Threads and BlueSky offer more traditional apps.

The #1 thing the Masto community could do would be to partition off the judgy hosts so that a new user would only find them if they were looking for them.

MylesRyden

@Tipa @me

I have to be honest and say, I don't even know what a "judgy host" and how it can matter.

As you can tell, I am actually using a "corporate" host, run by the Vivaldi browser people as I was already using the browser.

I have run into a few judgy people and sometimes they are correct, I should have alt-text on my pictures, but no I am not an expert at it and sadly it is not a super high priority for me to get much better at it. I have totally been dumped on from time to time for expressing unpopular opinions, but that is par for the course.

Oddly, one of the things I have been attacked the most for is when someone complains about Mastodon, and I make the mistake of saying, "You can really make your Mastodon experience anything you want it to be, have you tried (X,Y,Z). I have had people go absolutely ballistic on that.

And here I am saying the same thing again. I'm a slow learner, I guess.

Jan 26, 2024, 05:39 PM·Public·Web
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