@Richard_Littler my experience so far: it's more social, like an actual social media. Very interesting experience, even if confusing.

@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.

@Richard_Littler give it a few weeks.

@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

@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 can we do swears as long as it's not at somebody else?

@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 it's like a warm hug on a winter's day

@Richard_Littler one thing I'm noticing, which brings me immense joy somehow, is all the different platform handles in the replies!
To see that so many different servers are actually used and decentralization is really happening 😍

@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 wait till everyone else shows up 😃

@Richard_Littler I just moved from San Diego to Maine so it’s a lot like that 😎

@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
Thanks for the explanation. Today is the first day I’m feeling capable on here. 🤝

@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.

@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 It's a breath of fresh air, lets not spoil it.

@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 I’m here too now

@Richard_Littler early twitter was similar… remember it fondly.

@Richard_Littler Excellent advice. 🙂

@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.

@Richard_Littler
Nice, you say? We're the Twitter crowd and we've come armed with pitchforks and flaming torches. 😄

@Richard_Littler and as you said in the other place, it's like "1 million people flocking in small village queueing at the only tea room owned by a retired lady opening 3 days a week!"

@Richard_Littler You forgot it also has nice pubs and a village duckpond

@Richard_Littler nicely put, and sounds just about right.

@Richard_Littler i love this :blobcatanimeeyes:

@Richard_Littler allo! I read a bit about things before signing up, I have a computer lying idle at home I'd like to see it will qualify to be a server. Any advice or tips on where to read about the requirements?

@Richard_Littler PERFECT description of the vibe here. So far, for me, it’s been a night-and-day difference between #mastodon & #twitter …

@Richard_Littler this is a lovely description 🙏🏻

@Richard_Littler and you know what that means @ketamihn. Scones and tea.

@Richard_Littler I hunch that the response to stimulus is regulated on the slow circuits in our brains on Mastodon. Maybe a neat experiment for the neuroscience scholars who love transitions between the city and the countryside. 'Take your time' may seem so uninteresting to those headed for the red planet on blue ticks. Did I think that too fast?

@Richard_Littler
And this is why I'm starting to dig it, even though I haven't found my people, yet. It's very #SlowLife (#IYKYK) and it's growing on me.

I just hope my fellow #Twitter escapees don't come over here and shit all over everything (like when a bunch of ill-mannered yuppies move to a quaint, quiet town and ruin it for everybody, including the insufferable seasonal tourists that the local residents love to hate and hate to love). 😬

@Richard_Littler it is wild to see replies to this post from folks who have only ever experienced corporate “social media” platforms … I lost track of how many years it’s been since the internet was more like the fediverse