Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
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@WTL @PapyrusBrigade Agreed. If they want to move at all, of course. Stay, move - up to the individual.
@CiaraNi @PapyrusBrigade Agreed. I really want the fediverse to succeed, and I worry about all these pile-ons of newcomers.
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@AncTreat5358 @franco_vazza Me too, with the hashtags. When I realised how they worked here and that I could *follow* a hashtag, that's when the Fediverse clicked for me. And the way they work as your own personal Content Warnings. Brilliant. Although I also, like you say, still stumble sometimes and forget to tag a toot with, for example, USPol.
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The fact that the thread under this Serious Toot has ascended into a pleasant war about the correct way to pronounce Scone is why I love the Fediverse
@CiaraNi We all know the real question is whether it’s jam or cream first…
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@CiaraNi @mdreid @jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Scone rhymes exactly with Doune (another very historic town just down the road).
Hope that helps.
@jbenjamint Doune. Skoon. Rhymes with loon.
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@CiaraNi I’ve been slowing moving services away from big tech, the big one was moving away from Google photos
@cwsound This resonates. It's a step-by-step process, slow, as you say. I have only just finished getting the last of my photos off OneDrive and that was a big, slow job. Very satisfying, though.
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@CiaraNi I signed up on mastodon.social because it seemed the obvious choice, and because the explanations of servers and "instances" were invariably written from an unhelpful technical point of view with no explanation of why any of that had any impact on me, and because I could find no information about the support capabilities and average lifetimes of individual Mastodon servers.
@Corb_The_Lesser @CiaraNi Exactly. And it took some weeks or months after joining Mastodon, until I learned about all the downsides of small servers. Hence, I stayed where I was. Bigger isn't always better. But smaller isn't always better, too. It depends on what's important to you.
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@CiaraNi
A minor point of disagreement!
You might have ask whether the cream or the jam should go on first and sparked a civil war in Britain.@hitsuyonai I would never ask that question! Because I already know that the jam goes on first.
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@hitsuyonai I would never ask that question! Because I already know that the jam goes on first.
@CiaraNi
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@CiaraNi We all know the real question is whether it’s jam or cream first…
@SorenMRiis That's not a question because the jam goes on first, no question
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@Corb_The_Lesser @CiaraNi Exactly. And it took some weeks or months after joining Mastodon, until I learned about all the downsides of small servers. Hence, I stayed where I was. Bigger isn't always better. But smaller isn't always better, too. It depends on what's important to you.
@katzentratschen @Corb_The_Lesser Agreed. It's entirely individual.
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@CiaraNi
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Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
@CiaraNi The correct answer back is to reply: "yes, I do everything wrong. It's the story of my life. Can you fix that for me?"
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@SorenMRiis That's not a question because the jam goes on first, no question
@CiaraNi You seem rather opinionated on these matters...
Also, scone rhymes with gone because I dated a Scouser for 3 years, and it's cream first because it's a damned mess to spread clotted cream on top of jam.
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Ditto:
'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'
'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'
’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’
It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.
@CiaraNi I didn't know I needed this thread but I needed this thread.
This is the best part of the fediverse.
I have become educated, uneducated, then educated again on tea related topics.
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The fact that the thread under this Serious Toot has ascended into a pleasant war about the correct way to pronounce Scone is why I love the Fediverse
@CiaraNi If you ever resolve that war, you can refine it into the cream/jam first mayhem!
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@CiaraNi The correct answer back is to reply: "yes, I do everything wrong. It's the story of my life. Can you fix that for me?"
@timo21 Ha yes, if they want to issue the instructions, they need to come over and do the work involved
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@CiaraNi You seem rather opinionated on these matters...
Also, scone rhymes with gone because I dated a Scouser for 3 years, and it's cream first because it's a damned mess to spread clotted cream on top of jam.
@SorenMRiis By 'opinionated', you meant 'right', of course.
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@SorenMRiis By 'opinionated', you meant 'right', of course.
@CiaraNi Wrong.
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@CiaraNi I didn't know I needed this thread but I needed this thread.
This is the best part of the fediverse.
I have become educated, uneducated, then educated again on tea related topics.
@knowprose Haha thats a very Fediversey experience too, to me - I become educated, uneducated, then educated again as I read through some discussion
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@CiaraNi If you ever resolve that war, you can refine it into the cream/jam first mayhem!
@Devonkiwi There is only mayhem if someone puts the cream first. And sure who would do a thing like that.
