@Gargron@dangillmor Jesus, Eugen. I'm . . . I feel like I haven't said clearly enough what I feel.
Mastodon is brilliant. Oh sure, we can make it better, we will make it better.
But it's already brilliant. I happily pay my monthly donation.
As a professional who lives or dies by word of mouth, I have an eighth of the audience I supposedly had on Xitter. But I have five times the engagement and interaction.
Every day I delight.
I'm sorry I haven't said it often enough. That's on me. <3
@Gargron@dangillmor Uh, well i really like Mastodon so far. Thank you very much for inventing it! We have even given a little for the upkeep - wish we could give more.
@Gargron@dangillmor Mastodon ist großartig! Ich kann nicht verstehen, warum gerade Journalisten den Wert der echten Unabhängigkeit nicht sehen oder verstehen wollen. Ich bin gespannt ob die Firmenaccounts (auch für Support etc. ) hier auftauchen werden. Hängt wahrscheinlich davon ab, wie gut Mastodon in deren Multi-Platform-Tools integriert werden kann. Das könnte einen ziemlichen Pull-Effekt haben, denke ich. DANKE @Gargron 🙏
@Gargron@dangillmor i like that mastodon actually works. a lot of people have "ideas" but not many put out something that actually works and on this scale. Thank you for making mastodon :BlobhajHeart:
@Gargron I would like to understand why so many of german-speaking journalists (and other interesting people) have moved from X (Twitter) to #Bluesky (instead of #Mastodon).
@Gargron@dangillmor I like how easy it was to integrate Mastodon with its API in my website. And I like that I can browse through Mastodon without having the feeling that I'm lost in advertisement and algorithmic sorting.
@Gargron@dangillmor there's a great community here, and it's a perfectly functional social network.
The new search features are especially useful, and I'm glad they're opt-in. Having a site that's not driven by the need to grow engagement and sell user data just feels nice and I hadn't realized how exploitative all of the other sites were until I started using fedi.