Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Thanks for the honesty!
It used to blow my mind that the “omg how can the vote for Trump are they blind fanatics!n!?” would be the same “Omg how do you not see how easy this is!!?” people, but now I realize it’s just people being loyal to their team, whatever it is.
then you need to decide your instance
Just use mastodon.social
If you feel like you want to join a more specific community then you can
I think it's the "basically" part in basically right back where we started that makes the difference. Even if 100% of Fediverse users were on a single instance, once that instance starts pulling Musk moves, the users can move somewhere else.
Only if that instance defederates from everyone else do we get the Twitter situation again. Or, since that's actually what happened, Truth Social, which I think is just a slightly modified Mastodon instance with federation disabled/deactivated.
We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance
But this doesn’t happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it’s the right choice.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 year ago
When using the official Mastodon app (as suggested in the guide) “instances” are not a factor at all (unless the user specifically goes out of their way). A new user could have never even heard of the term “instance” and the above steps would work fine.
Actually with Mastodon this is literally how it works.