“That’s where I’m like, ‘Oh, this person’s got to decondition themselves.’ ”Hayden runs a small server for an up-and-coming microblogging site called Mastodon. “The concept is very similar, but the culture is very different,” he says of Mastodon versus that other platform. My boss gave me what he claimed was his Mastodon address but when I searched, it only turned up errors. After the constant notifications and ever-updating timeline of Twitter, Mastodon felt slower and more disconnected. Twitter had a critical mass of users that meant news was broken regularly, and Mastodon isn’t there yet, and isn’t set up that way, regardless.

Source: thestar November 10, 2022 04:19 UTC