I used to be on witches.town but that was in like 2016 and I can't find my account there anymore so here I am on the most boring server possible. If I hang around here much, I'll migrate somewhere more exciting - though I did hear Glasgow have their own which is lol.
Hi everyone, I guess.
@scattermoon Witches town died completley in a burst of fedi drama like three years ago sadly.
@scattermoon i think i just said that the fediverse is like a community accountability process, and i was right: Twee, unstable, racist, and sometimes useful.
@scattermoon (but also instance matters a lot- my instance is like 10 people who are friends, yours should be stable but also full of randos. Thankfully it's quite easy to move instance now)
@ada yeah this seemed a good place to land for the time being as it's very much the hub. If I stick around, I'll find somewhere else. Not sure quite where as I have deliberately always tried to be in many different social groups.
@scattermoon thankfully you can do multi account, like @chican3ry @chican3ry or just follow/interact across servers.
@ada @chican3ry oh I see. I do feel very much like I don't know what I'm doing here still and I don't know how to find everyone either.
@scattermoon the on ramp is STEEP tbqh
@ada @scattermoon have been here a while and setting up an instance reminded me I still don't know how it works.
It's most familiar to people who were online in 1995 or thereabouts because hacker culture is quite conservative I guess. I appreciate some aspects of that but am learning to become more self-skeptical of why.
@chican3ry @ada I've seen you talking about it a lot and it's honestly been quite overwhelming! I just want a Twitter 2 basically even if I know this place is not that.
@scattermoon @ada I don't think anything is ever going to be a Twitter 2, and having a community owned social media infrastructure is by nature going to be much more balkanised and take a while for the dust to settle.
@chican3ry @ada just going to take some getting used to. Already odd not be able to QT things for context purposes. And what should be CW'd.
@scattermoon @ada the QT thing I think is likely to change - not least because Nazi instances already have built QT features into their fediverse connected platforms so the argument that QTs are being restricted to prevent abuse doesn't hold any water.
@chican3ry @ada yeah, I appreciate that people think QT = dunking on someone, but it's nearly always used to add thoughts on other tweets be they news items or topics from other users. It decentralises conversations.
@scattermoon @ada hmm ui kinda sucks still on my version of the app
@chican3ry @ada literally just shows up as a link for me.
@chican3ry @ada huh, I assume that must be instance-based?
@scattermoon @ada or maybe just my android client tusky
@chican3ry @scattermoon @ada yeah, it's a link preview
@chican3ry @scattermoon On pinafore.social (which is a good, twitter like, interface)
@ada this feels like a stable website to be moving to lol