It’s been over a year since gave up on Facebook and started dabbling in the Fediverse. After the initial excitement of talking to myself on two different Mastodon instances, trying out Pixelfed and PeerTube, and setting up this blog, i soon became bored because nobody i knew had yet come across to the distributed way of doing things.
And so i pretty much ignored the entire thing, until a few weeks ago when Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn and promptly set about to destroy it. Suddenly loads of my friends on the birdapp were talking about Mastodon, sharing their new identities even though they hadn’t posted anything yet, and asking me what mine was.
So it felt like a good time to come back to it. I tidied up my Mastodon profile, added a verified link to my website, installed a new app: MetaText is so much nicer than the standard Mastodon app. And i sort of just started posting again.
Slowly and surely, some of my friends also started posting. I’ve had meaningful replies and conversations! Even mainstream media is now talking about Mastodon! It looks like this thing is actually happening for real. And it’s all thanks to Elon Musk!
Follow me:
@aimeerivers@queer.party
@aimeerivers@pixelfed.social
@aimeerivers@fediverse.blog
Comments
November 19, 2022 21:16
@aimeerivers I am new here and I am enjoying this app much more than the birdapp so far. I am discovering so much and things seem more chilling. Less afraid of been bullied 🤗
November 20, 2022 22:50
#FediTips federated blogs
Hey newbies, did you know there are blogs you can follow in the fediverse too? In a Mastodon account, you'll usually see new blog pieces as a post containing the title of the piece, a brief description, and a link you can click on to read the whole thing. The post I'm replying to is an example, from a blog you can follow as @aimeerivers , written by @voleak .
April 18, 2023 09:18
Thank
MetaText is so much nicer than the standard Mastodon app connect 4