Notices by Tipa (tipa@gamepad.club)

@n @shalien @me @fooderick I never bothered to get my tweets when I left Twitter. It sounds trite, but I treasure the friends I made there more than any specific tweet. And that's why I would really enjoy it if everyone I liked to chat with THERE, would just come to one place, preferably HERE.

@MylesRyden @me well, that's exactly what I said to my friends on BlueSky. "Try this server, I know the admins, they're cool". They laughed. They won't try Masto again.

I'm not talking about alt text on pictures (though I did get dinged for it, I agreed and corrected). But being told I can't post pictures with animals, or with people's faces, or anything done with AI. I like posting pictures! And guess what, I do use Midjourney and Dall-E and stuff, too.

@fooderick @shalien @me I was big into Google Plus for years. Say what you will, but i owned my data. When it closed down, I merged all my G+ posts into my blog, so it's all still around. And I pay for my blog hosting, so I own everything there.

Mastodon's federated implementation is, like you say, a drawback toward having access to your data. I can't just ask for a ZIP of all my Masto posts.

@MylesRyden @me you're absolutely right; it is the people, and Masto is my main social media currently. Many people won't take the time to find their Masto home, though, not when Threads and BlueSky offer more traditional apps.

The #1 thing the Masto community could do would be to partition off the judgy hosts so that a new user would only find them if they were looking for them.

@treaclewasps @me I dunno which instances. But I was on an instance which begged me to put content warnings on everything, never share pictures with people looking into the camera, never share pictures that looked unusual, forbade any discussion about AI -- it felt like everyone on that instance struggled day to day with their sanity. I wish them well but having the admin harangue me about EVERY LITTLE THING was tiring.

@me I tried a few Mastodon hosts before I got to my current one. My first one had every bad thing people say about Mastodon -- I was informed of the rules I was breaking frequently. So I left, eventually ended up here. Lots of people have a bad experience and just leave forever.

@me I have gotten a LOT of pushback from friends on BlueSky about using Mastodon. They call it an unfriendly, judgey place with a lot of unwritten rules that crossing any makes you a pariah.