What it’s like joining Mastodon

For all its ills, Twitter has the advantage of aggregating a plethora of viewpoints into a single service. If you want to find out what people on all sides of politics think about an issue, you’re just a hashtag search from that information., the much written about “alternative”, is still a platform in its infancy that, despite a claimed 2 million active users a month, feels a little underpopulated .

For a newbie, it’s hard to know which server to join to replicate the experience you have on Twitter. You can join multiple servers, but that entails creating an account for each of them. On the mobile app you can swap between them by long-pressing your profile pic. The feed looks like many such services and like Twitter you can join the conversation, like a post, re-post and share posts., when you click on search you have access to a screen that shows trending hashtags . Unlike Twitter, you don’t get the trending lists by subject area.

I successfully joined two servers using the mobile app but when I tried to log into the website version I was unsuccessful and no password reset email made it through to my inbox.It’s early days for Mastodon and if the influx of users continues they will shape the service. It’s hard to know if a respectful exchange of ideas is possible on social media but in the meantime, there’s always #catsofmastodon and #dogsofmastodon.edits the Weekend Fin section of AFR Weekend.

Elon Musk: - Bans violent accounts on Twitter - Bans child pornogrophy on Twitter - Bans sex trafficking on Twitter - Bans domestic terrorism on Twitter - Bans real-time doxxing of locations on Twitter (due to threats against children) Media: - Elon is making Twitter unsafe!

Will be a good 6-8 months until there is a real alternative to the bird.

A few ex-Twitter engineers should get together and create a new platform that works exactly like Twitter sans Elon. Mastodon is, unfortunately, a poor alternative. TheoChapman3

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