(+) A lot of people in our social circles have been shifting there from Twitter, often as a response to increasing badness from Twitter. Mastodon copies the Twitter model enough that people can parse it as “that but with 500 characters”, with most of the good and bad that that entails (there are some other changes to the model, but overall it's similar). The big thing the people around us are latching onto is social policy being driven by instance administrators (with federated message exchange) rather than corporately from on high, which we agree is a good thing.
We were shoved into it by social pressure, and are ambivalent about it (mostly due to finding properties of the Twitter model itself troublesome regardless of the steps forward, and much preferring the Dreamwidth model) but generally willing-ish.
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(+) A lot of people in our social circles have been shifting there from Twitter, often as a response to increasing badness from Twitter. Mastodon copies the Twitter model enough that people can parse it as “that but with 500 characters”, with most of the good and bad that that entails (there are some other changes to the model, but overall it's similar). The big thing the people around us are latching onto is social policy being driven by instance administrators (with federated message exchange) rather than corporately from on high, which we agree is a good thing.
We were shoved into it by social pressure, and are ambivalent about it (mostly due to finding properties of the Twitter model itself troublesome regardless of the steps forward, and much preferring the Dreamwidth model) but generally willing-ish.