@juniorstu A lot of years ago I heard about some decentralized Web 3.0 services like Diaspora and even touched them — but there were no interesting things to read and no interesting people to subscribe, so I continued to use Twitter and other centralized platforms.
Then, since 2022, some of these platforms became not so welcoming place to communicate — state-controlled trolls, just a morons and a stream of apocalyptic news leave no place for interesting things. And some of these platforms were simply blocked by state, since they are competed with official propaganda.
At the same time a read a blogpost of
@vas3k about Web that couldn't be so simply blocked, not depends on some corporate entity, etc: https://vas3k.blog/blog/unstoppable_web/
Thusly, I started to think about #Mastodon since it was described as a one of the biggest federated thing — it should provide me a way (as I think) stay independent from corporations and companies with their lies about "human approach" and "customer-oriented services" (stares to fucking NameCheap
). If my Mastodon instance admin decide to go crazy or just be forced by state to ban all Russians — well, when I simply migrate to another server, without this madness.
So, I selected the mas.to server using the instructions from aforementioned blogpost. And I used it for some time, learning how Fediverse works, by the way.
First of all, I tried to type some hashtags for Emacs, Thinkpad and FreeBSD and found a lot of interesting people and a lot of interesting discussions — so my timeline became filled with interesting toots very quickly.
Also, I discovered an extremly useful (compared to other social networks, lol) feature to hide all unwanted toots by word filters. So, finally I was able to clear my timelines from any unwanted toots.
After near a year I found, that all cool kids have a small separate servers where they write about cool things. At this time I already found that mastodon server should be selected carefully to have a local timeline readable — on the mas.to, since it was located in the USA, there were a lot of USA news in it's timeline. Which is obviously wasn't interesting for me.
I already know
@stefanoStefano Marinelli and know about mastodon.bsd.cafe instance and as for BSD user — my next step was obvious
#mastodon #fediverse