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 @wsrphoto @bleistifterin @rgarner
TBF, there is also Irish coffee.@Sarahw There is there is
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@toothless Nice map
And it seems to harmonise nicely with the geographical spread in this thread. -
@BsCreativeLife @stux That's an excellent thing to overdo
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@toothless Nice map
And it seems to harmonise nicely with the geographical spread in this thread.@CiaraNi born in Green, now residing in deepest darkest Orange
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@CiaraNi
So true. Like being mugged by the cloakroom attendant.@blabberlicious Haha, that's a wonderful analogy. You haven't even got your arm out of the second sleeve and they're saying 'Sir! Sir! Stop! Kindly put your coat back on and take your things and go somewhere else.'
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@CiaraNi "You're seriously using Signal to text your grandma? She needs to install an XMPP client ASAP. If she doesn't build from scratch you can't be sure the CIA won't be able to see the time a message was sent."
@JustinH Ha yes, exactly this sort of thing
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@CiaraNi
I am not a tech savvy person at all. Came to computers late in life, don't know how they work under the hood. I didn't come here from some other social media because I didn't use social media then. Heard about Mastodon in a news article, and was curious.Since you don't have to sign up first in order to explore, I just lurked and explored for a few months, cautiously, since I'd heard bad things about social media in general. But I liked what I found, and finally decided to sign up.
I had jumped around exploring without ever noticing there are different servers. So when I decided to click on "sign-up", it just signed me onto whatever server I happened to be reading a post on at the moment. So sheer chance. But I'm happy enough with where I ended up.
@CommonSparrow This echoes my experience. I was the same. I came here in a hurry from Twitter when Musk bought it in 2022 and basically stuck a pin in the map of the Fediverse. And count myself as lucky that I happened to land on Mastodon.green because it's a lovely, calm, well-run server with a sustainable concept. At the time, I had no clue. If some stranger had said 'no, wrong server' to me when I arrived, I am certain I would just have walked away and never come back.
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@scandigonian @toothless Me too, they're great fun
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@psneeze Yes it is! I can't believe there are people who walk this earth saying Skon Skon Skon.
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@CiaraNi @johnlorimer @annika I think I recall Cory Doctorow saying this, yeah
@resl Ah, it was. Thank you. I found it.
'AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
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@toothless
I'd love to see a map like this of North America and some theories of why different areas pronounce it the way they do.I definitely say it in a way that rhymes with 'cone' and have no idea why.
'I definitely say it in a way that rhymes with 'cone' and have no idea why.'
Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone.
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@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi most of the survivors were muffins and bagels, thus forever changing English tea habits.
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Winners write the history of wars
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@CiaraNi The funny(ish) thing is that Bluesky is just as purity testy about people going there from Twitter. But all that does help you decide who you want to interact with (one way or the other).
@RobJLow Interesting. I didn't know that about Bluesky.
'But all that does help you decide who you want to interact with (one way or the other)."
This is a great and true point
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@wsrphoto @CiaraNi @bleistifterin @rgarner
There's only one way to drink coffee - black!@rgarner@mastodon.social @bleistifterin@fnordon.de @CiaraNi@mastodon.green @wsrphoto@sfba.social @Sarahw@mastodon.green
cold brew tastes better than cooked coffee. black. or maybe some green tea for kicks
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@CiaraNi I’m not sure about the correct pronunciation, but I don’t really like scones. (Ducks & hides under the table…)
@Zero2beach This is as shocking to me as the time someone told me they don't like puppies
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@CiaraNi And some people need their twitter account. I need twitter to contact my ISP via DM. Without twitter, I would need to use the phone and I'm not doing that if I can avoid it.
Plus, I have deleted all my posts, likes, etc. and changed my profile to encourage everyone to leave. I just sit there as a dead account. Maybe they count those as active, but at this point, anyone advertizing over there is doing it because they are nazi adjacent and don't really care about normal things.
@human3500 It's a personal choice to let an account lie dormant or actually delete it. Whatever suits you or any of us. It's not up to any passing stranger to start interviewing people, asking them unsolicited questions about the details of their other social media accounts the minute they walk in the door to the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi @imalcolm @johnlorimer @annika
Fully agree that we should celebrate folk for trying out Mastodon, and avoid shaming or complicating things re: "oh no you picked bad instance"
I also agree with the many issues and problems with mastodon . social
I try to do a little "actually-welcoming committee" by having # introduction + # newhere as part of my 'advanced interface / deck / homepage', that does not include instance judgement.
@dusk @imalcolm @johnlorimer @annika That's a nice idea. Tips & tricks in a general toot. Not personal and unsolicited, like people going into a newcomer's replies and instructing them what they're doing 'wrong'.
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@wannabemystiker @CiaraNi Cone all the way!
@toothless @wannabemystiker Yes, cone all the way!
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@CiaraNi born in Green, now residing in deepest darkest Orange
@toothless My thoughts and prayers are with you
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'I definitely say it in a way that rhymes with 'cone' and have no idea why.'
Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone.
"Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone."
Haha! That explains it!
My Irish ancestors came from Clare (180 years ago) and my English ancestors came from the West Midlands (300 years ago) -- all in the "cone" zone but there's no way that speech pattern would hold that long -- or maybe it would.
I garden way too much. 
