My experience so far with microblogging services:
Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...
Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).
Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.
Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.
Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.
In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.
#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Threads #Some #Mastodon
@rolle@mementomori.social
I was never much of a social media person, never had a facebook or twit account but was a bit interested.
I think when twitter was crashing in 2022 I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I came across Mastodon and liked what I read about it so I opened an account.
Now I am a regular reader and post almost everyday. Most of the people I meet here are really cool and the trolls are blocked with one easy click.
Mast got me reading, writing and thinking again, I'm grateful for that.
As the #republicans continue to broadcast their lies and disinformation, I realize that I am just as angry at our government now as I was in the late 60's, early 70's.
We went to protests with the energy of diesel locomotives to express our hatred for war and the corruption in politics.
I feel sad because we are still fighting that fight now ๐ข
๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ฃ๐ก๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ผ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐!
Please vote at every level of government and destroy the #Republicans at the polls.๐ก
We had mass shootings back in the 70's
Except then it was the National Guard and Police doing the shootings on unarmed students and protesters.
Take a trip back a few years and watch the movie Billy Jack. I saw it when it came out in theatres in '71.
There is so much in it that pertains with what is still going on in society today.
It's about the
#environment
#racism
#underdogs
#victims
#heroes
#injustice
and so much more.
It's easy to see the #Republican attitudes of the 70's and the similarities of today's #Republicans.
#Racism was as ugly then as it is now.
The changes we wanted never came true for us.
WTF happened?
Here's what people on the outside looking in, don't get, Mastodon isn't an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.
That's what struck me about it, and why I'm still there. People on Mastodon didn't care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.
All these kinds of articles are basically stating, "This wasn't for me, therefore these things are failures." How absolutely ridiculous.
@RickiTarr@beige.party
Mastodon is by far the best.
Most of us would be kicked off of twitter by now, myself included as I don't walk softly criticizing the republicans and their star players (Trump and DeFascist).
There are so many cool people here, even when we disagree, it's in a nice way, with no trash talking.
Freedom of speech is what we are all about here.
No Ads, no BS period.
And to top it all off, this place is a lot of fun.
I haven't read and written so much in years,
Thanks Mastodon. ๐
From the he's an A$$Hole files...
JD Vance says it was โvery coolโ to have Disneyland shut down for his family vacation - but apologizes for โlonger linesโ
โSorry to all the people who were at Disneyland for the longer lines, but we had a very good time,โ the vice president said with a smile, holding up his hands in mock defense.
What an arrogant SOB, I hope you get stuck at the top of the ferris-wheel next time and have to wait hours to be rescued..
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-disneyland-trip-b2806460.html
A former letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service has pleaded guilty to stealing checks and debit and credit cards then selling them to accomplices, using the pilfered money to fund a luxury lifestyle of trips to the Caribbean and Instagram brags with piles of cash, officials say.
Marry Ann Magdamit, 31, of Carson, California, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
Magdamit...I like that name ๐ค
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/mary-magdamit-steal-usps-instagram-b2806583.html
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It's just not America anymore...
Welcome to the largest 3rd world tinpot dictatorship in the world. ๐ก
Sarah Shaw, 33, and her six year-old were detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 24 July when she drove her two eldest children to Vancouver airport in British Columbia for a direct flight to New Zealand to visit their grandparents on a holiday.
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#tRump
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-woman-detained-ice-immigration-b2806701.html
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However, the mother and son were detained when they tried to cross the border to re-enter the US, where she was staying for over three years and is working as a youth counsellor at a juvenile detention facility in Washington.
โThey are confined in horrible, isolated conditions with extremely limited access to communicate with legal counsel and bordering abuse,โ her friend Victoria Besancon, who is trying to raise money to secure her release, said.
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It's just not America anymore...
Welcome to the largest 3rd world tinpot dictatorship in the world. ๐ก
Sarah Shaw, 33, and her six year-old were detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 24 July when she drove her two eldest children to Vancouver airport in British Columbia for a direct flight to New Zealand to visit their grandparents on a holiday.
๐ #tRump
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-woman-detained-ice-immigration-b2806701.html
Residents in Alaskaโs capital urged to evacuate over flooding threat from melting glacier
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning until Thursday at 8 a.m. local time. The Mendenhall River is currently at 9.85 feet, and the major flood stage for the river is 14 feet. The service warned the river will crest at 16.6 feet at around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Good work humans.... soon your planet will be ours...๐
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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/alaska-mendenhall-river-lake-flooding-evacuations-b2806535.html
The U.S. governmentโs gross national debt has climbed to $37 trillion as a result of increased borrowing from Donald Trumpโs administration, according to the latest report from the Treasury Department.
The debt stood at $34t in January 2024 and $36t in November and has surpassed the $37 t marker far earlier than forecasts made before the Covid-19 pandemic had anticipated.
It just keeps getting worse as the days slide by...
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/national-debt-treasury-department-trump-b2806657.html
Beware the parking lots! Expert dishes on best and worst volunteer gigs for 2026 World Cup
I love the way FIFA is promoting it's scam of conning people to work for free.
As to why FIFA โ a multi-billion dollar organization set to profit handsomely from the World Cup โ can't pay its volunteer army, Adcock says that would take away from the tournament's magic. ๐
She expects the supply of people wanting to volunteer will outstrip demand.
This is whitewashed slavery.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fifa-volunteer-2026-best-gigs-vancouver-1.7606295
Calling all World Cup volunteers: Application portal now open for Vancouver positions
Between 2,500 and 3,000 volunteers are being sought for the seven games being hosted at B.C. Place.
FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations in the world and the fact that they are calling for volunteers while they will be reaping billions is just really outrageous.
It's bad enough they endorse the use of slave labour to build their facilities.
This is why I don't support sports.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/calling-all-world-cup-volunteers-application-portal-now-open-for-vancouver-positions/
When #tRump lost the election after his first term, I thought he was done.
How did this even happen?
We let it happen, we fell asleep at the switch and now we are stuck with him.
Remember all the movies we have watched where the cops take down the big cartels and save the day...
#tRump and his hand picked monkeys are the cartels that have always provided the everything we consume so that they can enslave us.
The difference is, there are no cops...
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
Maddad โ
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