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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@CiaraNi
I left my first instance and considered leaving Mastodon behind entirely because I eventually grew tired of frequent admonitions from moderators about how to avoid offending perceived vulnerable minorities. It often felt like they would actually prefer you to wrap every post in a content warning, no matter how innocuous the subject.Of course, you shouldn’t be a jerk. But I also don’t want to feel like I have to weigh every word with extreme care just because it might offend someone.
@mikill I agree with all of this, extremely so.
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@CiaraNi The other half of my crowd are mainly from Glasgow which is the capital of Scotland, and Liverpool which is the capital of Liverpool. Everyone of them was and is socialist and right about things that matter. Like skons.
@DavidBridger Haha, well this almost but not quite convinces me that Skon is a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
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@annika To keep the answer simple - I think it is the only corner of the internet left that is worthwhile. It aligns with my values.
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@DavidBridger Haha, well this almost but not quite convinces me that Skon is a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
@CiaraNi Perfectly so, I'd say.
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@johnlorimer @CiaraNi @annika
I saw the same thing happening with many of my former Twitter mutuals: exodus to Mastodon in late 2022 (when bsky did not even exist), then moving to bsky as soon as it opened up. -
@CiaraNi @PapyrusBrigade Agreed. When people are ready, they will move.
@WTL @PapyrusBrigade Agreed. If they want to move at all, of course. Stay, move - up to the individual.
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@mdreid Skwon! Well maybe if you're in the process of eating one, then with your mouth full that's what Scone sounds like
@CiaraNi @mdreid @jbenjamint @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Scone rhymes exactly with Doune (another very historic town just down the road).
Hope that helps.
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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 I’ve been slowing moving services away from big tech, the big one was moving away from Google photos
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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 @CiaraNi @mdreid @Wifiwits Purrfecto!
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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
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. -
@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.
