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Thank you for this comprehensive guide! I really <3 Mastodon, I like that there’s an instance for everyone, but I can still follow friends on other instances.
LOL. I didn't even know that was a thing until I saw Thomas Fuchs abandon twitter for Mastodon. How do you even pronounce it? Mas-to-don? Masto-don? It's a hideous name, lol.
This response to the name makes me want to ask you so many questions! Are you a US native? I've always taken it for granted that everyone learns about mastodons.
No, I'm not a natural born US native. I never thought about looking up the meaning of mastodon, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm surprised that I didn't know about it. Perhaps I was sleeping in class 😕. Actually, I don't recall studying about it. I know about Woolly mammoths though.
I think it has some legs this time. I've checked out Mastodon a few times, but recently I'm finding myself spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter.
It's really nice to be able to read the Local and Global timelines, just like in the early days of Twitter. Having a firehose of people, personalities and topics is nice.
Plus Mastodon is developer friendly, unlike bird site.
I have seen GNU Social come and go several times. I doubt that coating it as "Mastodon" will finally kill off Twitter...
hope springs eternal, friend.
Thank you for this comprehensive guide! I really <3 Mastodon, I like that there’s an instance for everyone, but I can still follow friends on other instances.
It appears that this has a lot more traction than in the past. However, I haven't used either of those so maybe you're right.
I have been evaluating all of the "better Twitters" and the only ones that stick are the ones with people who are on Twitter anyway.
LOL. I didn't even know that was a thing until I saw Thomas Fuchs abandon twitter for Mastodon. How do you even pronounce it? Mas-to-don? Masto-don? It's a hideous name, lol.
This response to the name makes me want to ask you so many questions! Are you a US native? I've always taken it for granted that everyone learns about mastodons.
No, I'm not a natural born US native. I never thought about looking up the meaning of mastodon, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm surprised that I didn't know about it. Perhaps I was sleeping in class 😕. Actually, I don't recall studying about it. I know about Woolly mammoths though.
I think it has some legs this time. I've checked out Mastodon a few times, but recently I'm finding myself spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter.
It's really nice to be able to read the Local and Global timelines, just like in the early days of Twitter. Having a firehose of people, personalities and topics is nice.
Plus Mastodon is developer friendly, unlike bird site.
I wrote two Twitter bots. I'm fine.