I swear to high heaven, there are a number of psyops happening right now surrounding social media platforms.

"Mastodon? Mastodon is nasty and complicated, and full of petty high school drama! It's awful! The Linux of social media platforms! I just want my social media to WORK!"

"Also, everyone should sign up for this completely unknown mobile-only app that is currently owned by venture capitalists, is centrally controlled, likely run by shitheads, and has extremely dubious ToS and CoC."

Yeeeeesh.

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@Phorm Also, to me it's funny that they call Mastodon "the Linux of social media platforms" because I've gotten so comfortable with Linux I have trouble going back...

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Given how privacy-hostile and complex the competing platforms are, and how Linux is making strides, that's a good point!

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