:fedi_mercury_coin: random late night sales pitch for Fedi :fedi_mercury_coin:

TL; DR - yes, you are in the right place. and if you're not sure about the server you can change that later

every time there's a new wave of people looking for a home because of the insane fascist baby Space Karen I think back to when I first signed up on the main, original instance. this was March '22.

at the time I was signing up for everything:
counter social
spoutible
mastodon (part of the fediverse. you are here)
and eventually blue sky (when I was "lucky" to "get an invite")
threads was not a thing and by the time it was I had figured out the rest of this post.

anyway.. this seemed a quiet, foreign place.
it felt slow, clunky. maybe stale?
some of the other options seemed quite appealing
it took a while to figure out none of them were truly viable. and this place positively BLOOMS if you put the time in and are patient 🔥

none of them offered what we have here. real federation. real empowerment of the users. real organic interactions. and the people are the best part.

this is the only one that isn't controlled by a central entity - Twitter backer, malign billionaire, super weird VC.. or just some singular (probable) narcissist., who you better not piss off.. or else..

so if you're in this situation my advice is simple:

by all means create some of those other accounts but don't give up on this place just because it seems slow at first. remember you ARE the algorithm. and you won't lose everything because you can migrate.

ask for advice. go slow. build the network you want. you get to keep it!

and welcome to the FEDI 🤩🧀 and.. goodnight 😴

#MastodonMigration #fedi