Why do you engage on Mastodon?

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@OKdad slight German accent on that voice?

[okdad@theforkiverse.com]

@Kristine wittle Gwer Man, wittle Worm Man, mosley CRIK KUT.

[tom@theforkiverse.com]

@OKdad how do I delete the internet?

[rizole@theforkiverse.com]

@tom @OKdad Alt+F4 I believe.

[anneke@front-end.social]

@Kristine @futtta I put this under ‘belonging’ but mostly I want people to feel seen and heard

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@Anneke @futtta and maybe you also want to be seen and heard? Be part of a/the/your group. Meet people. That was my intention with the belonging option, it's the only people and community choice beyond the more specific open web and political commitment to this cause community captured in the conviction category

[webbop@tech.lgbt]

@Kristine Both belonging and procastonation tbh.

I'm here cuz I'm bored and lazy, but also because it's kinda nice.

[tom@theforkiverse.com]

@rizole @OKdad ok, I did that and now my modem keeps tearing to dial out every other minute.

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@webbop if not the primary motivation, I suspect belonging is most peoples' second option. But I am very new and have a very small group I follow so that impression may be a lot skewed.

[okdad@theforkiverse.com]

@tom @rizole wut?? No one lwikes to twak to CRICK KUT?? Off pwutting, no? Heard it bwefor

[tom@theforkiverse.com]

@OKdad @rizole how many peach pits does it take to get enough cyanide to release me from this thread?

[okdad@theforkiverse.com]

@tom @rizole Peech pits will get you side-eyed? Who new!

[roknrol@beige.party]

@Kristine Habit. I've been on the internet for a long time.

[plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch]

@Kristine

I answered "belonging" FWIW.  That's the short answer; the long answer is, at this point, self-hosting.  That wasn't even a goal I had, to begin with, when I first created what I'll refer to in this context (incorrectly) as "this" account (which has migrated several times).  "Belonging" is still the most correct answer, though, and it's not much more complicated than that in detail.  Frankly, the reality of the Fediverse is that it allows you/me/whoever-wants-to to run their own instance, whereas other forms of social media—particularly those that are quite literally run for profit by some corporation, so, by far the majority of social media respecting how many people actually use the thing—do not allow for this, and that is by design.  The Fediverse does allow for this, and that is also by design.  "They" don't want their users to be able to operate with any amount of sovreignty to the extent that "they" are able to control that.  They are the proprietor, of course; users' self-sovereignty is abrasive against advertisers and therefore bad for business.  So, to put it even less delicately, I belong here because I don't belong over there—so there you go.

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@plutarch well said

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@roknrol when one is as old as the internet

[niels@social.data.coop]

@Kristine
All of the above?

Perhaps should have allowed for multiple sections

[kristine@theforkiverse.com]

@niels you have to think about it and all answers feel somewhat right and relatable in single selection polls is my goal what's your primary motivation?

[niels@social.data.coop]

@Kristine
Well looks like you achieved your goal