@georgetakei And free of the hatefull trolling as well, please

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100%

@georgetakei Amen to that!

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100% that's why i'm here.

And thanks for making it more interesting!

@georgetakei Yes!

@georgetakei it certainly would. Fingers crossed!

@georgetakei Completely agree, George. Just landed here today so here's hoping...

@georgetakei the beauty of Mastodon is that there are no owners, and you can move to another server (or even have your own) anytime.

@georgetakei Switching between Twitter and Mastodon is like moving from constant rage to complete serenity.

@georgetakei yes, let’s do this!

@georgetakei Well Mr. Takei, this is it :) Welcome 🖖​

@georgetakei a billion percent, yes 😉

@georgetakei agreed.

@georgetakei I am much more comfortable here. We are not so focused on our impact, but we can talk to people more.

@georgetakei 100% yes

@georgetakei yes indeed it is 🥳🍾🎊🎉

@georgetakei Exactly!

@georgetakei 100% George, rather see people like you here

@georgetakei Couldn't agree more.

@georgetakei agree. more control over the content I see and no ads.

@georgetakei More than healthy. And regarding your poll earlier... did you know that most people with stomas name them? (My colostomy is called Sibyl.) There's an awful lot of stomas around called Donald, for some reason... I'll just leave that there. 🙂

@georgetakei Totally agree. But not just a social platform, everything. The world would be a better place.

@georgetakei I need it. I just started liking Twitter as a platform.

@georgetakei Hear hear.

@georgetakei 100%! No far right oligarchs, no promoted accounts paying their way into relevance, no algorithms pushing outrage, tribalism and controversy for the sake of ad revenue.

@georgetakei agreed

@georgetakei for it being such an awful thing that's ruining America, oligopoly is a funny word. :blobfox3c:

@georgetakei It’ll be slow to reach that tipping point, but I’m really digging the platform.

@georgetakei I think it's worth TRYING at least

@georgetakei absolutely refreshing :ablobcatrave

@georgetakei agreed. Here’s hoping folks stick around and help this place grow!

@georgetakei Yes. If I can get past the confusion of this service. I started with a server here in Japan, but couldn't upload images and had other problems. So I just switched to this server. Still not used to it. On the other hand, the T-service is confusing too.

@georgetakei also, I have a story I’d like for Brad to hear.

@georgetakei I definitely agree. I love that people interact here and chat

@georgetakei Definitely feels better without their idea of "engagement" which inevitably meant pile-ons in the other place

@georgetakei Even better seeing that you are over here too George. 👍😎

@georgetakei Definitely better without the Muskrat

@georgetakei Amen. Or make it so ;)

@georgetakei This morning I read someone on mastodon saying "I get more easily bored on this plattform than on twitter. And that is a good thing."

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A refreshing change

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#ElonMusk behaves on #dyingbird like a junior high bully who happens to be the son of the school director.

#masto is by design free of that. /rmk

@georgetakei most definitely!

@georgetakei It's a deep relief!

@georgetakei 100%

@georgetakei hop we manage it! Have a lovely day!

@georgetakei Okay but what happens once public figures come on here and spread their own variations of discriminatory rhetoric? Every platform is good until it isn't, and the true litmus test of all of this will be how this server's owners handle ethical questions they are not expecting to have to answer for a morally sound result.

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Correction George... it IS healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks.

@georgetakei I sure hope so! It's what many of us fought for in the early days of the public internet. It's something we've been dreaming for a long time, even if it looks a bit naive in retrospect.

But many of us are still fighting, because, naive or not, that's still a dream worth fighting for!

@georgetakei Absolutely.

@georgetakei This place seems to be such a breath of fresh air comparing to other social medias.

@georgetakei yes. Twitter is no all sports betting adds for me

@georgetakei It's time to create a world we want to live in and stop living in a world others want us to live in. Democracy and participation are the keys to create our world, with the ultimate freedom of choice, not of being chosen.

@georgetakei I do, though I am missing the engagement with my handful of twitter peeps. (Not enough to go back!)

@georgetakei it would be healthy to be free of billionaires full stop.

@georgetakei Yes, that's why I'm here and not one the other alternatives that have sprouted. Mastodon is designed right.

@georgetakei l agree it is much healthier hear. The bird site has become a sewer.

@georgetakei my worry, as with open source, is that's it's largely volunteer hosts and admin/moderators. Is that sustainable?

@georgetakei I don’t see why people say this platform is difficult. It’s as easy to use as twitter. It just needs more people, which it’s rapidly getting.

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Absolutely!

@georgetakei let’s be fair, we’ve always been advertised to but I don’t think ads have ever been so invasive in our lives.
Can you imagine if every letter we got had an ad at the end?