Mastodon is short form. Similar to Twitter. Twitter is about all I use outside of this (though I can't say I really use it!). 86'd my facebook ages ago. Zuck can jump off a cliff, and he can take Elon with him.
Can't say what people will use it for besides a replacement for Twitter. It really depends if folks are interested in the short form. The one thing about Mastodon is that it is decentralized. Which comes with good and bad things, but you don't have an algorithm telling you what to look at, you don't have ads in your face, nobody is keeping track of what you look at or what you post. And because it is a fediverse, each instance is an island with its own rules and culture and the inclination to weed out certain types of content. You pick one with rules you like and your home space will be as you wish it to be. Then you can follow folks either on your instance or on other instances and they'll communicate between them so you can see what your friends post, and they can see what you post.
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Date: 2022-11-12 04:03 pm (UTC)Can't say what people will use it for besides a replacement for Twitter. It really depends if folks are interested in the short form. The one thing about Mastodon is that it is decentralized. Which comes with good and bad things, but you don't have an algorithm telling you what to look at, you don't have ads in your face, nobody is keeping track of what you look at or what you post. And because it is a fediverse, each instance is an island with its own rules and culture and the inclination to weed out certain types of content. You pick one with rules you like and your home space will be as you wish it to be. Then you can follow folks either on your instance or on other instances and they'll communicate between them so you can see what your friends post, and they can see what you post.
At any rate, lots of interesting folks out there.
*waves* Hi!