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It's Just Me
I'm trying to convince the last friends I have left on Facebook, X, Threads, or BlueSky to join the Fediverse. Some have tried but felt a sense of loneliness. Nowadays, many people are so used to doing what algorithms suggest that they can no longer make independent choices.
My timeline here, on the other hand, is beautiful.
I see what I want, I follow people who post what I like, and no one tells me what I should do. Freedom may come with a "cost," but whatever it is, it's worth the effort. Always.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialNetworks
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Sian

@me Yeah, lots of the people I knew from Twitter who joined Mastodon fell away from it quickly, saying they just didn't 'get it'. I think they're now all on BlueSky. I blame the latter years of Twitter where everyone just passively absorbed everything.

It took me a while to find my feet here but I did it by actively boosting, liking and replying to posts, finding and following hashtags, then people. And now I have a really nice feed and lots of interesting people and photos and conversations!

Matt Mascarenhas

@Funktious @me Yeah, I wonder if it's similar here to how things were on a small-ish community blogging site I was on years ago (blog.co.uk).

No "algorithm". We'd basically form our own little circle of friends by writing articles, finding other people's blogs in the directory, commenting on each other's articles, joining groups.

Maybe the people who didn't get Mastodon never really had that kind of experience?

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Marie Ranquet

@miblo @Funktious @me
I have been wondering the same. I guess some of us are old enough to remember the way of engaging you are describing. Presumably a lot of people started on social media when it already was a much less "social" matter than at its beginnings.
Also, presumably, us : 🧓 👴 👵 😅

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Sian

@Marie_Ranquet @miblo @me It's really interesting, and I'm looking forward to someone writing a social history of all this! I've been online since the late 90s, but I was a teen then, and a shy, nervous one at that so I was very much a lurker and still tend to be. As social media grew I grew more confident posting, but I still tend to hold back more than I post. And a lot of my friends from twitter were from the same generation as me.

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Matt Mascarenhas

@Funktious @Marie_Ranquet @me We're probably basically the same age. Now you mention it, back on BCUK my circle of friends was actually mostly older than me. And here, there was a poll about this just the other day (that I now can't find), most people are from older generations.

And about being a lurker and holding back from posting, I polled this kind of thing myself: mas.to/deck/@miblo/11014751329

So maybe there's both a generational and a read-rather-than-write thing going on here.

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