Thread | Brutkey

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.

As a social platform, Lemmy offers nothing drastically better or different than Reddit. Which, again, | suspect, will be detrimental to its growth. The average person doesn’t care about API pricing; they want their memes. Nor do they care about running their own instance of a social network. Allin all, Lemmy comes across as what a utopian Reddit should be. Free of corporate control, with the ability to run your instances. But unless something changes dramatically, it’ll suffer the same fate as Mastodon or Bluesky. | can't see it gaining any traction beyond those in the know unless serious efforts are made to simplify it for the average user.

Maddad ☑

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@maddad@mastodon.world

@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. 😀