RE: Look, just fucking use Mastodon already

original post can be read here

please do NOT harrass me for this, this obviously won't happen but i am saying this just in case

ok dude i appreciate that you want more users into the fediverse but people won't use it because you keep forcing mastodon to alot of bluesky users

i am not saying this because mastodon has terrible ui (for me it's ok) or it's too techy

i am saying this because you guys think that fediverse is the only GOOD social media out there and that there are no other alternatives

let me tell you a very dark secret

not every social media platform is perfect, not even fediverse

have you ever read how social media does a fuck ton of negative impact on your mental health ? this could apply to any social media, no matter if that platform is on the fediverse or the atmosphere, it can still give you a very bad impact.

fedi users always complain that bluesky is addictive but they ignore that it's literally the same issue of their platform(s) too!

now let me fact check your post

“But if I move instances, I’ll lose my posts!” Yeah, you’ll lose your posts. You know what you won’t lose?

Your entire group of followers.

You know, the way you lost them when you moved from fucking Twitter to fucking Bluesky. With fucking Mastodon, you don’t have that problem.

one of the reasons why atproto was created is to provide proper account protability, which is something fedi can't offer

for an example, you have an account on triplet.social and it has a shut down notice, you decided to migrate to sneakersotoole.io by basically setting up a redirect to your new account (basically putting your old account in an archive and adding a link to your new account)

and when triplet.social shuts down, all your old posts will be gone and your audience won't be able to see them anymore

oh wait, you have managed to save the posts from your deleted triplet.social account? congrats! but, you won't be able to import them to your shiny new sneakersotoole.io account...

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.

source: the official mastodon documentation

luckily, fedi developers managed to use the invention from the web inventor tim breners-lee and attach activitypub to it, thus creating activitypods , which nobody really uses... and that's just sad :(

“No. Choosing an instance is too hard!” Have you chosen an email provider, fuckers? Yes? Congratulations! You can pick an instance.

“But how do I know that instance won’t implode in a giant cloud of drama?” You don’t. It happens, and it sucks when it happens, but it doesn’t happen all that often. Go find another instance.

“But what if the instance I’m on doesn’t federate with the ones my friends are on, or they change their policies to be more puritanical, or—” Go find another fucking instance. This is not rocket surgery.

this is like saying "if you hate mcdonalds then go to kfc and if you hate kfc then go to burger king"

There is only one single solitary social network whose design, in all its fucking fiddly, nerdy-ass glory, offers any protection from corporate enshittification. Sorry. One. It’s fucking Mastodon. Just fucking join fucking Mastodon. Jesus.

actually, it's two: mastodon, like you said before, and basically just abandoning all kinds of social media, starting a blog and actually going outside like a normal human being

have a nice day :3