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seeing people complain about "mastodon" (meaning fedi) due to a *complete* misunderstanding of anything to do with it just feels, i don't know
makes me sad people don't want to give this platform a chance. like we wouldn't be who we are today without this place and these people and it feels bad seeing people not even make the effort
but also maybe it should be easier? maybe there are problems in explaining what feels obvious to us since we've been here since what, 2017? and have seen all the stuff that resulted in things being how they are today
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@Felthry I think some of it is that the fediverse (but Mastodon in particular) is just enough like Twitter that the differences feel to some folks like knockoffs of the original instead of new innovations with broader purpose and accessibility.
IMHO also some folks are looking for a Twitter-style soapbox brand engagement zone™ and the fediverse is often actively hostile to that mindset in ways that can't be bypassed thanks in part to a lack of profit incentive.
Shit's complicated.
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@mawr part of the difficulty understanding this might be that we don't really understand how exactly it's different?
the thing in question that got us feeling sad is seeing someone get frustrated and confused at not being able to join mastodon.social or meow.social (why is meow.social suddenly so huge anyway?), joining some other instance we haven't heard of, and being confused why they couldn't see anyone on m.s (presumably this other instance has them blocked, for good reason)
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@Felthry ahhh, that's an even more frustrating problem, yeah.
Every time Twitter jumps onto Mastodon, it's Mastodon.social and like maybe a couple others the bulk of the migration focuses on. This time it was a lot more distributed (there was a wire article going around earlier about fosstodon.social https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-users-mastodon-meltdown/)
but yeah, too many people means moderation is impossible, and influxes like this compound that problem massively, leaving instances with few tools.