Yes I want a full-featured documentary about a cute baby hippo. You’re right.

Totally not a joke-country you guys.
Totally normal.

I have the same question, because many mastodon instances are barely keeping up with the costs of hosting pictures + text.

Yes, russians should gtfo of other countries universally.

“Russian” is not a race.

…chaos that they’ve created?

The websites track the planes not the individuals.

The planes might be flying empty. It has nothing to do with GDPR.

Chicken / egg

It’s not a place for lurking, IMO. If you’ve got nothing to offer, don’t expect to get engagement on shitposts and rage-bait.

I personally get more engagement on Mastodon, because I couldn’t please the twitter algorithm. And I have 7 times fewer followers on Masto than I had on twitter.

Organic reach is best reach. Everything else is noise.

deleted by creator

Doesn’t Iran have nuclear weapons as well?

So hold on, no troops in Ukraine, because they’re not NATO, but troops in Israel no problem?

Or is it because US is scared shitless of Putin? Or is it because a lot of prople sympathise eith Putin?

Maybe there’s no profit in aiding Ukraine?

I’m just saying, that they are really, really inefficient as RSS for everyday people since the are more posts you didn’t subscribe to, than the ones you subscribed to.

Hence saying that it’s what people use them for IMO , genedally, is incorrect.

When you say “people…”, assume that most use the native app.

No u

I think people are tired of the 140 character type social networks, the novelty has simply worn off. It’s either self-promotion or “I had two eggs for breakfast lol” type of posts.

People who came to Mastodon, posted “Hello world!” and didn’t bother to set a profile picture or add a description will always complain about the lack of discoverability, or the place being boring.

You literally have to put in work to set up your feed, follow hashtags, people and post yourself for it to be a network and not just a feed of things. And I think people struggle with this concept a lot.

I do understand that it’s not for everyone. But it’s not a problem with Mastodon, it’s just a natural filter IMO. “You have to put at least this much effort to integrate”. Low-effort things are usually just rage-bait.

Both Intsagram and Twitter will fill your feed with random people / brands you don’t follow.

It’s all about the dopamine hit.

Sure, blue checkmark.

Mastodon is the only place where I don’t get triggered, and instead get inspired and/or informed.

Good moderation, no bots, no fascists, no “famous, because stupid” idiots. Just a nice bunch of people sharing cool, interesting shit. I absolutely love it.

Uff, imagine getting news from a rightwing nutjob owned social network. Big yikes.