Notices by me (me@mysmallinstance.homelinux.org)

@rrapio @me Don't get me started on this. As a Senior I try to warn my senior friends. About the filter bubble, and basic privacy / security settings. Well, for most seniors I know, forget it. When corresponding digitally with seniors, just protect yourself.

@ics It *is* interesting. And it’s boosted! 💖

@n @Tipa @me It's hard to move away from the Twitter ways, I mean all of us are assholes sometimes but here that behavior is not artificially boosted for profit.

@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.

@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.

@Funktious @me Yeah, I wonder if it's similar here to how things were on a small-ish community blogging site I was on years ago (blog.co.uk).

No "algorithm". We'd basically form our own little circle of friends by writing articles, finding other people's blogs in the directory, commenting on each other's articles, joining groups.

Maybe the people who didn't get Mastodon never really had that kind of experience?

@me Indeed, artists get the same support here with a tenth of their audience on Instagram because we choose the people we follow, we're responsible for this, so of course we're more committed as a support network – at least for artists, and maybe even more broadly.

@Funktious @patrickhadfield @me I'm on Bluesky because that's where a lot of writers have ended up. It's one massive audience, and as a result it feels a lot like standing on a mountain shouting at clouds. The conversations here are much better, IME.