Welcome to the Mastodon Network. It's ✨ decentralised ✨, but what does that mean?

It means that if you try to write a thread (like on twitter), people may or may not be able to see all posts depending on where they are, the current federation smell, or their star sign

Inversely, you can't control where your posts end up, and i hope you like backups, because we're all about backups here, your posts will be replicated across hundreds of instances, some of which will reject deletes. There are constant efforts by all sorts of different people to index and archive The Mastodon Network. Want privacy? lol skill issue, you're on the privacy equivalent of an imageboard

Want to talk to people? Great! Your instance admins can ✨ defederate ✨ from other instances for any reason, maybe there was some harassment, perhaps the rules are different, maybe those other people hate the colour purple (cringe opinion, purple is great, defed on sight). Either way, they might be able to see your posts, but you can't see theirs, and they can't talk to you.

If you're an « important » person (lol no you're not), there is no verification, and we will impersonate you. why? funy

do you enjoy random people calling you slurs? Fantastic, decentralisation is amazing for facilitating this! You're in the right place for the premier online slur experience, i have been called twenty slurs already today, and i am fully satisfied with the level of service.

Do you enjoy ban evading? decentralisation makes ban evading as easy as 1-2-3, we have the proudest and largest community of ban evaders in the world

also no algorithmic timeline or something idk, in conclusion The Mastodon Network is better than Twitter

#feditips #fedifacts