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To ppl who join Fediverse because of Twitter or whatever, donโt leave, give it a chance. a lot of people i see join, use it for like 3 days then leave once any threat related to Twitter was mitigated. Iโm rly happy I stayed, made a lot of friends here, had actual discussion here, plus less toxicity! Anyone who is new, give it a chance, stay, I believe youโll like it :) 23 comments
@mcalel Agreed! Itโs so much more comfy and less toxic/judgmental here imo. @mcalel Probably the roughest part was finding an instance to get started on. I was able to reconstruct a decent-sized slice of my twitter feed via migration tools; since then I've been spending progressively more time here, while Twitter management continues to slow-boil that site with fascism. @mcalel The actual conversation part is what's a winner for me! Twitter felt mostly like people making statements and getting shared. Here just about *everything* gets at least some actual engagement, and I have several real conversations a day! @mcalel@tech.lgbt If you do leave, don't leave to another centralized service. @FizzyImp I guess my sort of โnothing to loseโ mindset allows me to easily move and ditch people who donโt care enough to come to me on here. Itโs totally fine to try to weasel yourself into here! Hell, I still check Twitter from time to time, albeit a lot less  @mcalel@tech.lgbt most people decide to stay with twitter because everyone else is there and they do not realise that they are being manipulated. The toxicity of the platform and the view manipulation algorithm make everyone unhappy and angry. Then people complain that social media are toxic.๐คทโโ๏ธ @mcalel Yep, agreed. I still consider myself new, but this is an awesome space to be in and I am enjoying it.  @mcalel @HopelessDemigod agreed! I think part of the problem is people don't like "starting over", having to rebuild a following list takes time and effort, vs. that twitter feed they've built for over a decade, you know? I always tell folks, "Patience & follow liberally!" @renwillis @HopelessDemigod I also see a lot of people who say they hate twitter, come here, then go back within like a week. Iโm not sure what they miss from there. I had a large following in twitter but went here cus I liked more @mcalel @HopelessDemigod It is jarring to go from a busy feed curated over years to over a decade to justโฆ. Nothing. It takes some work to find people to follow, going down rabbit holes of good boosts to find more. It wasnโt until I really got a great group of people to follow that things started feeling like a home here. You know? I think a lot of people just donโt want to put in that work again. - let alone start from scratch on their own followers. @renwillis @HopelessDemigod I guess I just didnโt like the attitude or behavior of people on twitter, I felt more at home here. I get where it coming from tho @mcalel @HopelessDemigod Me too. But Twitter felt like this once too. Scale is the enemy of social networks, but Iโm hopeful that a federation of thousands of โtwittersโ is hopefully less shittification inducing than the shitshow most social networks become. @mcalel I think it's neat, having trouble finding people with common interests though. Got any tips? @Untitled_1 honest to god I struggle with ppl too cus of social anxiety, try interacting with ppl. I started off by finding random ppl on the federated tab :) @mcalel Also wait, what's the Federated tab? I'm a noob if it wasn't obvious XD  |
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@mcalel staying here was one of the best decisions i took recently