Yesterday was a bit of a trying day for me personally. I’ve personally been bought into this notion that Mastodon provided a kinder gentler alternative to Twitter, but yesterday largely proved that notion completely wrong. The Fediverse has been the welcome home of the disenfranchised and marginalized, which is awesome since Twitter has not done a great job of protecting that group in any way. However some events happened recently and because of them I am glad that I joined up several weeks ago rather than right now at this time. I was able to see what I thought was the ActivityPub community in its native state, talking about interesting things openly and publicly and willing to friend each other just as easily. I was able to get settled in quickly with the help of a whole slew of people who offered useful advice as I docked myself into a corner of this big maelstrom of interesting things. I started out on Mastodon.cloud which was a large overflow instance to the original flagship of Mastodon.social. However I quickly realized that maybe being on a big disconnected instance was not the best idea in the world. As such I made the migration to Elekk.xyz which is awesome and started funding the patreon a bit to help out in its maintenance. However when my good friend Liore decided to fire up her own private instance… I found myself making the jump yet again to Nineties.Cafe and I am extremely happy I did. It… [Read full story]
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