Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Collecting feedbacks about fediverse experience
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    11 months ago

    I am on Mastodon, Lemmy and PixelFed.

    • Difficulties: On Mastodon I had two accounts on different instances. It took some some to decide which to keep and which to deactivate. Not a big problem, as I am not a very active user.
      I’ve been using Lemmy since the early days. It was harder to choose an instance on Lemmy than Mastodon.
      I have never managed to find a PeerTube instance that I could use for uploading.
      So, main difficulty would be time spent lookin for instances.

    • Challenges: I have never really spent time trying to attract users. When describing it to some people they liked the idea, but wouldn’t move to a social network where their friends were not.

    • Experience: Positive overall. I have had exactly one confusing problem with another user. I will say that there are some strongly opinionated people on Fedi. Instances do create groupthink which can lead to biases, but I was aware of that before onboarding.

    • Feedback: The Fediverse is a good social network for many different people. It appears to me that Fedi can be quite welcoming to neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities. There is a political leaning, at least on the instances I see. I wouldn’t say there is a slant, but when opposing opinions collide, wording matters because #FediBlock is a thing. I am of the opinion that improvement should come about organically. Forcing changes is pointless, unless you are a developer who can suggest a way to make the improvement a reality.
      New users to Mastodon (and Fedi as a whole) need to understand that “quote-tooting” isn’t a thing, monetisation isn’t a goal, and it will never be a 1:1 clone of Twitter, Reddit or Instagram.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?English
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    1 year ago

    I agree with you. But I think those are the words used by the haters. The artist may have done their homework. The onboarding procedure, the concept of instances, etc., is different or cumbersome, or difficult, whatever. So, if you have trouble figuring it out and you go looking for help you sometimes find these threads or posts/videos saying:

    “It is SOOO easy. Just choose an instance. It’s like [insert analogy here], get it? Good! Now have fun and be kind and polite 😸”[1]

    And some would use the strongest word possible to describe the situation: condescending.

    Personally, I didn’t find that part condescending. And being told to add alt-text isn’t a problem. And using CW for lots of different things isn’t a problem either. I have had one confusing interaction on Mastodon where someone blocked me after accusing me of some offense — a “lost in translation” situation where a non-native speaker misinterpreted what I was saying and before I could explain to them what I was saying, I was blocked… but that can happen on any social network.

    1. not an actual quote ↩︎