12 october 2023
Mastodon Thoughts
I've been thinking a lot about being on Mastodon. No real conclusions following, just dumping.
I originally tried 2022 but the instances I joined were boring and mid-moderated. Boring sounds mean, but I do like to have some interesting conversations or fun ones from time to time. If I just want to post with no interation, there are quite a few different venues that work better.
2023 seems to be better. I am on solarpunk.moe. There are a few people there I get along with. I like the moderation. I don't hate anyone. but there are a lot of people not in my age group and just nicely shitpost. I feel like I'm not vibing 100% and am looking for alteratives. I can still follow/interact with the people I like.
Sometimes I wonder if I am using/looking for the wrong thing in Mastodon. Or using Mastodon to replace other things. I like the conversations, news, microbites of information, art. I care less for the miniquips. A part of my local to federated feed feels like LOL RANDOM. And I'm just speed scrolling past it.
And now that I'm thinking about it... peak Twitter you followed people and if you just focus on certain things you don't get the LOL RANDOM.
So I want more control and the design of Mastodon seems to be less feed control unless I just rss feed only the folk I like and go about Mastadon this way. In fact I just might.
So I guess I do have a conclusion on this.