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1. Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:02:26 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   When I joined the #fediverse via my own Mastodon instance back in 2018 (and with an identi.ca, status.net, pump.io history going far back), I never thought of it as a Twitter, Facebook etc alternative. I saw it as a new planet. A fresh approach to build a real social network. I still look at it that way. I want to explore new possibilities. Try new things. Escape the gravity well of the "old", centralised networks. Find a better orbit. That is why I block threads.net on my instance. #justsayin

   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:02:24 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     in reply to

     Maybe you now understand why I don't really care about the growth rate of the Fediverse. Or how it could overtake BigCentralsiedThing and what changes MUST be made to achieve that. I don't want the fediverse to be a better Twitter or Facebook etc. I want the fediverse to be a wonderful experience for those that value it and iterate over it to be an internet of people, not an internet of algorithms and monetisation. is all. Let's build from that position, if you agree.

   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:02:25 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     in reply to

     I wanted (and still want) it to be different. Where I would reconnect with people that felt the same (and many of us still fondly remember Google+ and its predecessor Orkut ;) but also connect with new people that made the jump for whatever other reason. I hoped (and still hope) that we can explore new ways. To boldly go where no social network has gone before :) Discussions around threads, bluesky are a distraction to me.

     murph :amiga: repeated this.