@rolle its full of gay people

@rolle my "something else" is appreciation of the values and principles of fellow users, who either chose the Fediverse long ago, or are birdsite refugees who fled the hatefulness that the latter became.

@rolle it is entertaining without being addictive. So when I have time I can post a lot and then when I am busy I can ignore it without bad feelings. And people seem to be trying to be kind and reasonable.

@rolle My instance is community self governed and admined by a rainbow of very competent individuals.

@rolle i wish for choise of open algorithms to use.

@rolle@mementomori.social misskey kitty cat ears

@rolle for me, on Catodon, it is great to have proper standard markdown support (in the works).

I know that it's not exclusive to Catodon by any means, but along with its direction, I think this is great software. plus, if I ever need/want to jump to Mastodon or Akkoma or whatever else, I can!

@rolle something else: it feels less like an advertisement space where everyone screams into the void (sideeye to insta)

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Moderation and Mastodon server covenant.

@rolle much less (almost non-existent) toxic environment.

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Something else - a user is a user and not an instance admin or moderator because of personal choice.

@rolle generally a safer community with much stronger and more effective content moderation than any large company can fiscally attempt

@rolle All of the above.

@rolle Instagram & x: "Oh, you seem to post and react to posts about classic arcade games. Better force non-stop US right wing posts on your timelime. P.S: here's also porn bots liking your posts".

@rolle completely different culture, brought by the non-profit, decentralized nature. no fights and making fun of each other all the time. no constant trolling of company accounts. we are free to set much better standards in the community by defederating, and we do

@rolle very sad that the excellent filtering system didn't get a spot

@rolle good people :blobhaj_cathug:

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What about "people" option?

@rolle The people are also pretty great. With very few exceptions of course.

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Something else: it's dorky as hell and I love it.

@rolle it's open source.

@rolle So I went over to the blue sky thing but hoo boy, it feels like the bird site, just not as much of the cliquey tunnel vision stuff but enough of it to make me come back here and wish more peole would.

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Among "something else":
- no quote feature
- does not push to hoard followers, views and likes

@rolle My short answer is “It’s a protocol, not a product”.

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The one issue I have is that while Mastodon is better than other social media, I'm not sure it's actually healthy.

@rolle How did you get more then 4 options? Sick.

@rolle Something else: It's non american. (here in Europe we only have american corporate social media, not a single EU one)

@rolle The people are 500% nicer and there are some stunning photographers in this joint

@rolle Mastodon is the only place I've found so far that doesn't have massive tankie presence, they are not as plentiful or actively harmful as fascists but they ruin most spaces I'm interested in frequenting.

@rolle open source, decentralized

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A couple more things:

* I can follow hashtags
* Filters!
* Public posts/threads are visible without having to log in

(if server is set up to allow this, I know some servers are private)

@rolle because the people on fedi aren't completely awful like on other sites. that's it, really

@rolle One of the reasons is the time I spend here. When using Instagram, I click on the discovery feature and the algorithm make me stay there for 2 hours straight.

On the fediverse, I enter to read what's new. There's no algorithm to suggest me something I didn't see before, so by consequence I spend much less time here.

tl;dr: Mastodon explore page is more ethical than Instagram's.

@rolle something else: it’s not Twitter

@rolle "No commercial algorithms" - more than that, no algorithms at all. If I follow somebody I see all their posts. 'Follow' is not just a friendly suggestion.

(OK yes, technically "Show everything in reverse chronological order" is an algorithm. But you know what I mean.)

@rolle it could even have ads but only if the ads doesn't spy or collect any data

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Surprised that "my instance can block entire other instances that are full of transphobes and Nazis" isn't on that list

@rolle friendly people ❤️

@rolle all of the above

@rolle My friends are here

@rolle I love love love the privacy level per-post feature!
My default is "followers only", but since I can open it, I can interact with everyone in the Fediverse -- on the bird site no one had seen my posts 😔

@rolle Kind of covered by "not owned by a single company", but I also like some of the fractured community aspects that come with that. It sometimes leads to instance drama, but ultimately I think it's healthiest that my instance isn't obligated to interact with all the other instances. It makes moderation more effective and generally improves the experience for everyone.

@rolle the real interaction.

@rolle You can choose to run your own instance.

@rolle all of the above!

@rolle Moderated way better, open source too

@rolle All my friends Move here, so I also moved here.

@rolle i like mastodon because the people