Gregory's ServerTo my new followers: You will experience delays as both a new signup (email delays) & an existing user (slow service; inability to load images, etc). It will settle down. Patience will be required. Remember, Mastodon is run by volunteers. It's not corporate & is still in the process of upscaling.
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@Richard_Littler  @djphng @Richard_Littler let's hope it stays that way for a while...before the brands and social media marketers come over 🥹 @JeanPhilippe @Richard_Littler Yes! Just that the IRC chats all happen simultaneously at once. @Richard_Littler my experience so far: it's more social, like an actual social media. Very interesting experience, even if confusing. @Richard_Littler @minnastiina Also worth noting - the 500 character limit (higher on some instances) still encourages brevity while giving enough space to express a thought fully. It’s not often that you need to thread here, and it discourages the pile-on, hit-and-run rudeness that was common on the bird site. @Richard_Littler Good and helpful words, thank you. Though I am struggling with it, can find no-one I know in the crowds outside the village, and the artisanal cafes sound great but could someone please set up a burger stall on the edge of town until we get a chance to experience these lovely places. @VincentWrites @Richard_Littler If you use fedifinder or debirdify, you can import your followers/followees/lists from the Bad Place - those tools automatically find the same accounts throughout the fediverse; you can then import to Mastodon, and the accounts will be followed automatically @RedStar @Richard_Littler Wonderful info, thanks. Alas too late for me, I de-activated my Twit the day Musk took over, not thinking to let followers know of my Masta account. There is nothing there now for such software to recover. Lost in space.... @VincentWrites  @VincentWrites @Richard_Littler Really, give it a bit of time, you are not in a hurry. Explore the Local and Federated timelines. Reply to random people if they peek your interest. Like, take a stroll through the village first, have a look around. :) @Richard_Littler "it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice." - fantastic simile. @Richard_Littler I don't know, there are shitty people everywhere, only difference for now is that they don't get much traction due to the lack of algorithms boosting inflammatory content  @Vittoria @Richard_Littler ...and due to the village cop actually being seen in the street @Richard_Littler I really ❤️ this description, mainly because that sounds like a place I want to be, but also because it reminds me of my first visits to dial-up BBS in the late 1980s. That sense of taking care of each other seems to have been lost in recent years @Richard_Littler I'm finding it so much less stressful than Twitter, and so much easier to keep track of things too! It's just...nice and I hope it stays this way. Babs and Maureen have been doing a lovely job.  @Richard_Littler Mastodon actually does remind me a bit of the village I live in, except there are a few less mobility scooters on the back roads. @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social it would also do well to remind ppl that there are so many other Mastodon servers as well as alternate platforms (I'm on a self hosted instance of the misskey fork Calckey for example). The Internet Archive just set up an instance as well as Vivaldi, known for their browser and even MIT. The problems you describe are bc so many folks are going to mastodon.social, a single instance in an ocean of them. @Richard_Littler as one of the 1 million, *brings* 🍵 and 🍰 then goes to sit in a corner with a book. @Richard_Littler g'morning Richard, I love the description of Mastdon... give me the simple quiet respectful life any day! @Richard_Littler one thing I'm noticing, which brings me immense joy somehow, is all the different platform handles in the replies! @Richard_Littler all I want is to find a few accounts that post news and updates for tv, culture, etc, for the UK. I think then I'll be happy to scroll on here over Twitter. @Richard_Littler Yours are the first posts in my feed and what a lovely warm hug of a post this one this is. Happy to have finally worked out how to be here. @Richard_Littler this is why I get the feeling it's not going to fully take off on a mainstream level. Not enough drama/toxicity and people's short attention spans may not have the patience to absorb the way it works @Richard_Littler @Richard_Littler - the little I have seen and looked at is stress free for me 😍 and at 69 that is much appreciated... @Richard_Littler I like that I can check Mastadon only once or twice a day and be involved. With most others, you have to live on your phone or you miss everything that’s happened. @Richard_Littler great metaphor to describe it. However, still hard to change the mind set that Twitter got us used to. @SweetAdmixture @Richard_Littler Agree. It took me a bit to get used to the lack of constant drama. But now that I am, I’m not going back. @Richard_Littler Those artisanal shops all have accessible doorways too. I’m trying to remember to always capitalise each word in a hashtag & to add text to any pictures I post. It’s only fair, this place was built to be accessible to all. I want to keep it that way. @Richard_Littler that would be reassuring but pretty sure there is no road to making this thing perform adequately, sounds like you like slow which is great..👍 @Richard_Littler I’m definitely in agreement! Mastodon’s narrow cottage lanes and flower-lined roads are very welcoming. It’s like an entirely new rural village to explore! And I imagine a spooky Victorian haunted house in the distance just waiting for me to set up shop… 🎃🎃🎃 @Richard_Littler Sort of reminds me of Twitter in the olden days when we were all shiny and new (around 2009) and everyone really was polite and friendly and it was slower and very pleasant. A bunch of birds sitting in a tree chattering away. |
Mastodon is different. It's polite and friendly. There's a different code of conduct (please look up some of the basics), a slower pace. It's not a sprawling, hectic shopping centre in a grim industrial park on the city rim; it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice.