On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 04:21:11PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist
wrote:
I’m getting déjà vu to several such discussions from the 2000s. And
mastodon as well is one of those things that takes me way back to when
we were all young and naive
I left Twitter in 2016 after having been thinking about it for a couple
of years (the time I needed to invest in that cesspool to obtain a
meaningful return had increased beyond what I considered reasonable) and
I joined Mastodon mid-November after I saw some movement there from
people in my close circles. I must say it has very "2008 Twitter" vibes:
it's fun, it's interesting, there are mainly meaningful discussions and
there are few trolls (yet.) It's a matter of time they'll eventually
arrive, but I want the optimist in me wants to think we've learned a bit
about blocking and silencing. I know we haven't.
I specially like that I support my instance financially via a monthly
contribution. I know the admin personally. It helps making me feel I'm
at home; everything has a human scale.
Cheers!
P.S.: about mailing lists. I'm starting a small project (pushing for law
reform --ID theft protections are horrible-- here in Canada) that will
eventually ask for volunteers when it's open to the public and I plan to
have a mailing list as the main communication tool + a small wiki
installed on a shared host as the main documentation repository. No big
tech anywhere to be seen, and I'll push hard to keep it that way; let's
see how that goes.
P. P. S.: I don't write much, but thanks a lot to Udhay for finding a
new home for the list.
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