@ajroach42 it's fantastic that such a gem as #mastodon was just waiting in the wings ready to go when #twitter imploded.

@ajroach42 too big to fail was always a lie.

@ajroach42 this is how it’s done😊👍

@ajroach42
100% here for it
🤙🤓

@ajroach42 such an excellent summary.

@ajroach42 the web has always been by enthusiastic people for decades. It’s only recently that we have relied on billion dollar companies.

@ajroach42 *was* a company with thousands of employees.

@ajroach42 I like that idea!

@ajroach42 Thanks for info. I’m happy to be here! After seeing twitter’s demise unfolding real-time and then having an alternative I’m considering myself as a lucky guy. I wish you the best in maintaining the service!

@ajroach42 I admire what you're doing. Not that my admiration is worth much. But I suspect you can multiply me by hundreds of thousands now, and millions shortly.

@ajroach42 Great to be here! Thank you.

@ajroach42

Bottom up decentralization.

And after Mastodon replaces Twitter nobody will be able to buy it and break it.

@ajroach42 and more power to you (us) !

@ajroach42 confused. I loaded it in on iPad, but cannot sign in on my phone. Shouldn’t I just be able to sign in? It says my email address and password don’t match, but I know it is correct. It’s exactly what I used when I set it up on my iPad but again, I cannot “ sign in” on iPhone.

@ajroach42 https://media.tenor.com/yrqYJ1IqqcAAAAAM/lets-cheer-snoopy.gif

@ajroach42 the power of workers refusing to be bullied, in large numbers, is quite clear - yet again.

Workers built Twitter and a billionaire trashed it. I'm looking forward to a more breathable, community driven space.

@ajroach42 mastodon is the multiverse 🤯

@ajroach42
I'm going to contribute to the Patreon because this is the business model that I want as well. I don't want an algorithm deciding how services should be paid for. Subscription is the way to go.

@ajroach42 that's great. I'd like to quote you in a blog I'm writing, if that's okay?

@ajroach42 @thisissethsblog picked up on this today. I get the emails.

@ajroach42 👏👏👏

@ajroach42 You are awesome! Thank you for all your time and effort🙏🏻

@ajroach42 love this

@ajroach42 👍

@ajroach42 F YEAH LET'S DO THIS 🙌🏻🎉🍾🥂🎊

@ajroach42

I love your, well — not thread, apparently, rather, last three consecutive toots. I also read your blog post (this one: https://ajroach42.com/what-everyone-seems-to-get-wrong-about-mastodon) and found quite some interesting points there, too. Thanks for sharing!

@ajroach42 I will try

@ajroach42 This place feels like home already.

@ajroach42 Thanks for all you have down. The safe space feels good.

@ajroach42 Thanks for this. I hadn't reflected on the greater promise of figuring out another new thing. Opportunity cost aside, I'm glad Mastodon got an own-goal boost from Musk, so we could fumble toward that openness that's possible here, but never there. Just the shift in mindset I needed.

@ajroach42 @Geborgen

@ajroach42 What is remarkable is how relatively hitch free Mastodon has been in scaling up to meet demand. That's a testament both to the efforts of those running servers and also the robustness of the protocol and coding.

@ajroach42 s/mastodon/fediverse

@ajroach42 It's not a Big Truck. It's a series of Toots!

@ajroach42 …and I’m happy to be here for it! Thanks for what you do.

@ajroach42 For me that sounds like the beginning of Linux nearly 30 years ago. A lot of good ideas, a lot of engaged people working night and days. And Linux OS is still there with always a lot of projects. Thanks for the job done.

@ajroach42

Okay, that last part was too good not to #shitpost

Cool thing: yes, it's happening!
Uncool thing: no, Fediverse will not solve all of the Internet's problems.

@ajroach42 😂 👏 👏 👏

@ajroach42 Still, servers have got to be paid for. It'll be interesting to see how that is resolved as we scale up.

@ajroach42 Absolutely. This is the way.

@ajroach42 And I appreciate the opportunity to join! I'm a new user and have really enjoyed the environment since coming on board.

@ajroach42 Thank you for being a safe place to land. Some of us come with some ptsd from the comments section on Twitter.

@ajroach42 billionaires all over the world are itching to get back to feudalism. The rest of us have to devise and enact strategies that will make their inhumane behavior extremely uncomfortable. Whether they admit it or not, the super wealthy are absolutely dependent on the rest of humanity for literally everything they have and everything they need. Watch the movie Captain Boycott. Based on real events. Very eye opening.

@ajroach42 Can I buy a Mastodon T-Shirt with that last bit? Good stuff. I am feeling at home here.

@ajroach42 this is stating to r mind of the internet in the early 90’s (when it was fun).

@ajroach42 it@will become the same when it grows up

@ajroach42 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@ajroach42 Keep up the good work, but remember, without net neutrality, wins could be temporary.

@ajroach42 I hate to be a chowderhead, but I don’t plan on choosing between one or the other. That seems implicit in much of what I hear around these parts.

This is legit one of the most based platforms on the internet

@ajroach42

I knew I had come to the right place!😍

@ajroach42 Exactly. On twitter we were never the customer we were the product.
Time to prove Lippmann wrong.

@ajroach42 Thank you! A relative newbie here and I'm so happy this is happening.

@ajroach42 I just help run an online support group on another platform and that's hard enough. In awe of all of you guys running this thing, it's astonishing ( and of course there will glitches and flaws, that's what keeps the humanity here). I'm still struggling to understand it, but the potential is immense - even I can see that.

@ajroach42 #donate

@ajroach42 this is exactly the same principle as community businesses. That is why our new island distillery is a community benefit society. It locks both the business and the profits into the community in perpetuity.
Of the island, by the island and for the island.

@ajroach42 Appreciate you!

@ajroach42 this gave me a solid (good) chill. A physical shiver

@ajroach42 Can someone help explain “federated”? Seeing lots of variations of federated/fediverse!

@ajroach42 just paid my annual sub. Every little helps!

@ajroach42 YES! ✊

@ajroach42 that's great, now when will you releasea crypto coin and can it be based in some way in the hot dog if not in style than in essence at least? this would be great to a lot of people I've been told (in my DMs, in private))

@ajroach42 decentralized is the future. and the future starts now.

@ajroach42 In 70s Britain there was a #sitcom called Citizen Smith about Wolfie Smith, a young Marxist “urban guerrilla" in Tooting, London. The catchphrases were “Freedom for Tooting” and “Power to the people”. #freedom4tooting #powertothepeople

@ajroach42 I would argue that it's more the fact that the layout is similar and people dislike change than anything

@ajroach42 other federated networks: the email, the telephone.

@ajroach42 How best to vet for bots and trolls here on mastodon?

@ajroach42 :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping: yay!

@ajroach42 Thank you.

@ajroach42 I wish we could wrestle power away from the billionaire class for some other things that Musk has his claws into:

Electric cars, renewable energy, space tech.
Power to the people!

@ajroach42 wow!

@ajroach42 I love you for this. I love the platform.

@ajroach42

I love it here. Now to find great people to follow. 🙂

@ajroach42 I have been trying to look for curating as much of a decentralized internet experience for myself that modern internet may allow me to have with most modern social media.
I really enjoy the way this is laid out and so far as a whole seems less stressful than other major social media in this.
I know I have been looking at things like neocities too to check out as well in trying to do this to make my own webpage in and everything. Reminding me of when I was a kid a lot.

@ajroach42 this app if tumblr and twitter had a libertarian baby and I love it

@ajroach42 #EatTheRich

@ajroach42 "fediverse" is even communistic because people share so many interesting things here for free.

@ajroach42 I've only been here for a day, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it & appreciate what it offers 👍

@ajroach42 where’s the evidence that its a sustainable business model though? 🤔

@ajroach42 Agreed. Overall, this is a much better posture to be in. However, I think the decentralization aspect of mastodon does put a spotlight on just how much of a luxury or privilege meaningful speech is on the internet. Here in mast'land, at least for the few golden hours I've been here, openness, meaningfulness, and ultimately personableness between the masses are more prominent than at birdsite.

@ajroach42 thank you for your work. I have just done a One Love One Planet podcast called Power to the People / Sortition which is all about the harnessing of ordinary citizens to help govern. Also very desirable!

@ajroach42 and I am here for it!!! I have only one regret: that I didn’t know about mastodon sooner! Thanks, Elon!

@ajroach42 how do I follow someone in another server?

@ajroach42 It is so VERY interesting, the whole setup - seems to me to be close to the original internet setup! Thank you, you and all your colleagues on the other servers - it's very exciting to this old COBOL programmer!

@ajroach42 Ultimately I firmly believe Mastodon will fail simply because the new user onboarding experience is rough, but it’s a super interesting experiment and will no doubt lay the groundwork for networks to come.

@ajroach42 Love that "was" there. And a great reminder, as many of us try and cram over a decade of follows and interactions into a few days/weeks.

Twitter acts as a monopoly.

That’s essentially the nub of the problem right there - monopolies are private governments, and have governing power.

Private governments nobody ever voted for 😱

Today’s confused idea that chartered corporations are private entities, akin to ordinary people, is the anomaly.

Why Is Anti-Monopoly Cool Again? Part I (Big issue 6-24-2019)
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-anti-monopoly-cool-again-part

@ajroach42 this makes me want to stand up and clap

@ajroach42 hello, is there a help or a good tutorial to follow in order to better get acquainted with mastodon and how it works?

@ajroach42 I understand trump truth social is part of the Fediverse? If so, how do I block it from seeing me and/or interacting with me? Thank you!

@ajroach42 Cheers and thank all of you for it.

@ajroach42 Yes.

@ajroach42 I can’t repeat this enough. It’s proof that we can have the tools we want and need without the compromise that comes centralized, proprietary services and the billionaires they create.

@ajroach42 sounds like the internet of old ...

@ajroach42 YES!!!

@ajroach42 I don’t know that people are moving because they know or even care that it’s decentralized, the primary enjoyment of Twitter is dissemination of information and communication with the written word. On the face of it, Mastodon is that, albeit with extra steps, and a leadership that’s actually anti-racism.