So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Considering that Mastodon isn’t really a commercial entity, it’s not bothered either way. It’s just there.

The “it’s too complicated” narrative is mostly just lazy commentary. How is it’s complicated? Go to Mastodon.ie for example and it’s no more complicated than setting up a Twitter account or a boards account.

It can’t magic your decades old Twitter account to be replicated on a different platform. You can use 3rd party tools to find old Twitter contacts that might be there too, but you are creating an account on a new platform. It isn’t Twitter and it’s not like porting your mobile phone from Vodafone to Eir. It’s like moving from Boards to Reddit.

You’re also always going to get a surge effect and people dropping off. The general experience though is that the volumes on Mastodon have grown and activity is way up.

It also ignores things like people drifting from Twitter to other established platforms where they already were active. I’m finding myself using Reddit and Boards far more than Twitter or Mastodon. Frankly I’m just fed up with microblogging. The level of hostility on Twitter would give me depression after a while tbh. It is just full of threads that go down spirals of grim and it’s definitely become worse. Mastodon just reminds me of old Twitter in vibe when it was still fairly friendly.

I gave up on Twitter completely after very weird interactions just before Christmas - it l isn’t worth the hassle to me. I used to enjoy it, had good interactions and a nice timeline of interesting people, and would have defended it when people said it’s a cesspool, but over the last few months unfortunately I stumbled the cesspool by chiming in on a few threads where I seem to have attracted a swarm of various weirdos, who have the posting style of someone standing on street corners looking for a fight by abusing passers by.

I honestly just don’t have the energy for it anymore. So I just left.

Considering that Twitter isn’t paying its rent in SF, that day could still come. Musk’s going to get bored at some point and he appears to be keeping the lights on though personal bankrolling. That’s only going to go on for so long - it’s a very expensive hobby.

500 characters. It’s significantly longer form than Twitter and you can edit posts.

Yup. This was me. I also left because of the posts in my timeline that were shared automatically because someone I follow, followed them (iykwim) and they were all generally very antagonistic and wound me up. I like being able to tailor my timeline, and I love not having ads. I donate a fiber a month to the mastodon.ie server and it's money well spent imo.

I pay for Mastodon, as do many others. Don't forget it cannot be acquired, it's not a normal centralised site.

It's basically impossible.

"Because of the decentralized nature of Mastodon, it is highly unlikely that it would ever be bought out. Unlike Twitter, which is owned by a single company, Mastodon is run and maintained by its users. This means that if any entity wanted to acquire Mastodon, it would have to acquire each server individually— an impossibility"

https://www.makeuseof.com/who-owns-mastodon/#:~:text=Unlike%20Twitter%2C%20which%20is%20owned%20by%20a%20single%20company%2C%20Mastodon,each%20server%20individually%E2%80%94%20an%20impossibility.