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[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wow I forgot all about mastodon. Does anyone use that at all? Or are we seeing a tower of Babel moment with social media?

Honestly they should just come to Hexbear

[–] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I use mastodon sparingly but that is largely because I don't like micro-blogging.

toots.matapacos.dog

This is a pretty good left-leaning server on there.

I will say though mastodon largely is a liberal site. Most servers are full of those who left twitter sooooo...

If you like micro-blogging though it is the best alternative. Free and open source, and federated.

edit: wording

[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What does micro-blogging mean? Is it different from what we do here?

[–] neo@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

It just means Twitter-style posting. Twitter came up when "blogs" were becoming a big deal, but its character limit meant it was like a "micro"-sized format of blogs. This is all from well before it had features like quote tweets, replies, and all that.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 14 points 3 days ago

I make a shitpost on mastodon about once a month.