#mastadon

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

#Lynda Carter #Wonder Woman #Diana Prince #Twitter #Mastadon #Post #Facebook

[cat-cosplay]

"Why did you join so many social media apps?"

Me:

#Twitter #memes #so many new sites #cat cosplay #cosplay #cats #kitty #cats in costumes #cat #fan art #cat costume #aww #cats of tumblr #zapp brannigan #i don't care who loses #futurama #threads #blue sky #mastadon

[mysharona1987]

#mastadon #elon twitter #elon musk #news #social media #wtf #usa

[virtueisdead]

posts that would go hard on tumblr #2

#kingvirtueisdead #tumblr #mastodon #mastadon #enby #non binary #nonbinary #gender #shitposts #shitpost #shitposting #nonbinary genders #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt memes #lgbtq memes #trans

[kjscottwrites]

Well for one I'M not going anywhere, but lets say for no particular reason that Tumblr does bite it...

I don't mean this as any sort of doomsaying, because I'm staying here and will stay here indefinitely. This is where my community is. But, I am curious if people are feeling inclined to relocate!

Feel free to add your other socials to this thread as well!

#tumblr #tumblr poll #polls #instagram #theads #facebook #bluesky #mastadon #pillowfort #cohost #discord #substack #writeblr #writers on tumbr #writer community #I forgot to add tiktok lol but I don't think its very conducive to writers anyway so thats probably fine! #SHIT i also misspelled mastodon #i hit publish on this way too quick huh

[jewish-culture-is]

jewish culture is making silly names for our community on different social media platforms. Jumblr, Jewhost, Mazeldon, etc.

I genuinely love it sm it's so heartwarming <3

#jewish culture is #judaism #jewish #jumblr #jewhost #mazeldon #cohost #mastadon

[maxisjoey]

Fight against Big Social Media

After seeing the actions of both Matt Mullenweg and Elon Musk, I think it should be clear that the people who run the platforms that let us communicate with each other are - in the most polite way possible - malicious dumbasses.

Your online presence is not safe in the hands of people like this, even if the owner of the current platform you're on is "one of the good ones", they will eventually get replaced one day.

We cannot realistically take down these social media giants, but we can at least slowly move like-minded people to better alternatives, and arm them with the ability to not be silenced or harassed easily.

Limit your given data for them and constantly point people to content you create to other alternatives, like a neo-cities website or a reliable Mastodon instance. If your platform has extensions like OldTwitterLayout or Vencord, immediately install them and disable all telemetry and tracking data they have on you. Most extensions either have telemetry disabled by default once you install them, but double-check their settings to make sure that they're indeed disabling them.

Create your own website on Neocities or host it on Vercel. This might sound difficult to less tech-savy people, but there are several resources out there like a markdown-to-html converter and w3school's entire repository of knowledge on how to make web pages that can help everyone get into creating their own website. I highly recommend that you stick with Neocities, as it's part of the indieweb and is very friendly towards new people learning these sorts of things. If you're using Vercel, make sure you're hosting your website on a private repository on Github so that you can never lose your website no matter what changes in the future.

Find a webring you're interested in and join it. This is what you can use to find other like-minded people.

Understand how the content-delivery algorithm of platforms you're using works and actively work against it. For example, Twitter punishes its users for following too many people, use this to your advantage to stay hidden from the dangerous freaks we call "People who pay for blue checkmarks", or if you're a content creator looking to market themselves; use this knowledge to boost yourself and your alternative platform(s) that you use.

Setup services and webhooks that let you automatically cross-post content between platforms. If you're unable to move away from Twitter or Discord for example due to your friends/mutuals/fans refusing to move with you, there are services like mamot's crossposting service and a Matrix bot bridge for discord that let you do just that. (Please double-check the service that you will use before logging into it to make sure they're trustworthy.)

#tumblr #social media #twitter #matt mullenweg #mastadon #neocities #indieweb

[geekysteven]

[Image description Tweet from lesbiaudrey "I'm starting my own Twitter alternative for all those fleeing the site. It's called Montresor, and if you'll just come down into my wine cellar I'll tell you all about it"]

Source

#twitter migration #twitter #elon musk #Tumblr #mastadon #mastodon #tribel #Hive #pillowfort #countersocial #cohost #instagram #edgar allen poe #Poe #cask of amontillado

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on the twitter clones popping up because El*n is destroying twitter? Hive was hilariously shortlived. But do you think Mastodon, Cohost, or Bluesky have what it takes to replace twitter?

I think a lot of them are dumb and greedy. The way people so willingly flock to anything even remotely promising is depressing, even when it's a pretty much open fact that monsters are behind them.

Like, Threads. Threads sucks! It's by Facebook! You know, Mark Zuckerberg, the dude who literally had to go before congress and explain himself because they were stealing and selling so much of your personal data without your permission? Because, by the way: That's not supposed to happen. You're supposed to care about that. You can't just be like "oh well they have my data already, may as well ignore it". That's a bad thing to just let happen!

This is the guy who invented the "pivot to video" concept that decimated an entire industry of writers who were now expected to produce videos, all because Facebook was dramatically faking viewership numbers in a bid to lure in more advertisers. He runs a site that was proud to accept and promote insane fringe theories and undoubtedly contributed to the attempted coup of the United States Government on January 6th 2020. That Facebook. That Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah. They're behind Threads.

Or what about Bluesky? Everybody hated Jack Dorsey when he was running Twitter, so much so that they basically forced him out of the company. Now he's behind Bluesky, a website that is literally just Twitter 2, which openly admits he's feeding and selling all of your personal data to machine learning databases (like ChatGPT or Midjourney).

They also openly have settings for whether or not you want to see racist and bigoted content, which actually means being a Nazi on Bluesky is totally okay! They're going to welcome those people with open arms! They're just going to give you a setting to hide them instead of, you know, eradicating them off the platform like cockroaches. But it means Bluesky allows them, marks them, and lets them freely indoctrinate more people into becoming literal murderers.

Remember Hive? Remember how many people FLOODED to Hive and it was discovered they had an eensy weensy teeny tiny security flaw that allowed anyone to both edit and delete any post on the entire platform? Hive said they were going down "for a couple days" to fix it and ended up being down for six months. Also, the developers behind Hive actively hid their identities this entire time! Even before they were popular! There was no way to be sure who was EVER running that service! People were joking that it was a CIA operation! Who knows!

People are trading one dumpster fire for another with these places. You might be escaping the stupidity of Elon Musk but you're still digging deeper, not out of the hole. Every single option is going to lead to more regret and misery eventually.

Even Cohost isn't perfect! And I like Cohost! It's a lot more like Tumblr used to be in the early days. And Cohost is a lot more grassroots than any of these other services, they're a lot more open with whether or not the service is going to survive, but that's also because they respect the poster, respect their data, and just want to make a cool place to hang out at. Out of all the places to spring up during Twitter's death march, Cohost is where I've been posting.

But I heard someone say that Cohost is a very "holistic" approach to posting, and that's true. It's the social media website version being a vegan. It's all kale and chia seeds.

Cohost has no recommendation algorithm. It does not tell you who is following who. It does not offer numbers to tell you how many likes or shares a post has, or who liked or shared it. Everything you do on that site exists in a near-total vacuum unless you specifically put in the work and go looking for it. On some level it's admirable, because they don't want people developing the same competitive, toxic habits of only posting to "do numbers."

But also it sucks because, like, there's no way to identify and reference notable posts, nor see who your mutuals are. The only way to find friends through other friends is if they share one of their posts. And once a post falls out of favor, it's basically lost in the void to all those except a chosen few who remember how to speak its name.

But the vibes at Cohost are... good. I guess. It feels much more like everybody knows everybody. One good post will come across the feed and it feels like the whole dang website shares it that day.

But I would like a little bit of numbers. As a treat. Just because we can subsist on tofu does not mean we do not also deserve a nice, juicy hamburger too.

There's also Mastodon, and I have a friend who really liked Mastodon and wanted it to succeed, but I also heard it described as "the linux of social media" and that's exactly why I'd never use it as my primary platform. It's supposed to be decentralized, making it more diverse and easier for sub-communities to exist within the network, but last I checked, it just made it a pain in the ass to actually follow people that were on different networks than you.

Each one had a different compatibility song and dance you had to do in order for you to follow them from your network. Didn't like it. The whole federated platform feels like slightly too much work to use.

I will probably keep posting on Twitter until the last ember burns out. But I am believing more and more that what Elon is doing to Twitter is deliberate murder in order to deplatform his enemies. He's an idiot, don't get me wrong, but he's also doing things that are deliberately malicious "for the lulz." I'm sure he thinks he can rebuild Twitter into whatever he wants because he's just that rich and smart so he's willing to gut it from the inside out first.

#questions #Anonymous #twitter #cohost #bluesky #mastadon #hive #threads #tumblr

[aberration13]

I know people are trying to find a replacement for twitter, but please do not switch to facebook's knockoff "threads"

Much better to use mastadon or something like that which is open source and non profit so it won't ever sell your info to anyone and doesn't serve ads that track you constantly.

Added benefit is no content algorithm to try and hijack your your dopamine receptors or to censor/manipulate what information people see and what goes viral. It's also not run to suit an investment agenda so there is a massively lower chance that it will suddenly flop due to enshittification like all the corporate social media platforms do eventually and all the digital social infrastructure won't just disappear overnight some day.

#my stuff #my post #enshittification #twitter #mastadon #facebook #threads #threads app #meta threads #corporations #social media #algorithms

[animentality]

HEY BITCHES every day Twitter makes Tumblr look intelligent. Whaddup, people who ironically chose the last man standing?

#twitter #mastadon #tumblr

[garthnadermemestash]

Twitter has really gone down the shitter. Elonia musky has now banned Cisgender on the platform. We will now be calling them Incels women won’t fuck.

#twitter going down the shitter #elon musk #elonia musty #twatter #fuck twitter #mastadon #blue sky #tribel #cisgender #banned on twitter #twitter is a hellsite #elon musk is an idiot #garth nader memes #mst memes #mystery sovcit theater memes #mistaken con man #dankest memes #tumblr memes #pathetic3 #force is woke #political memes #heterosexual #lgbtq #lgbtgia+ #pride month 2023

[katameme]

Capturing Snuffleupagus

#jim henson #muppets #sesame street #snuffleupagus #mammoth #mastadon #paleo #travis chapman

[mysharona1987]

#elon musk #lbqt #poc #woc #politics #twitter #tesla #mastadon

[virtueisdead]

this post is occupying all the furthest corners of my mind

#kingvirtueisdead #mastadon #mastodon #funny toots #funny posts #trans people #bluetooth speaker #bluetooth #shitpost #shitposts #shitposting #no id

[aut2imagineart]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My piece for this year are a Mastodon and a Great Auk being friends. I chose these two species as they both lived in Massachusetts and (to the best I could research) existed at the same time.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

#mastadon #great auk #paleoart #elephant #bird #flightless bird #massachusetts #thanksgiving #happy thanksgiving #my art #digital art #digital color #digital illustration #shoreline #shore #beach #extinct animals #paleontology #happy #friends #friendship