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I'm very curious, what kind of communities and subjects have embraced Mastodon? A while back there was a lot of noise about how it was a popular place with tho

I'm very curious, what kind of communities and subjects have embraced Mastodon? A while back there was a lot of noise about how it was a popular place with those uncomfortable topics that twitter had banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064 I clicked gingerly on the links to communities at the bottom of the article - octodon.social, social.tchncs.de, mastodon.art, mstdn.io, mastodon.technology, mastodon.rocks - and many of them have a live feed of posts. I've gotta confess I couldn't quite tell what communities there were, but I'm not an insider and I don't know how to navigate it.

Kihashi 9y ago
Many of the instances are organized around a particular community. For example, toot.cat is for "cats and the people that love them". witches.town is "made to provide a nice place on Mastodon for queer, feminists, anarchists and stuff as well as their sympathizers." However, as you'd expect, you might not talk strictly about cats on toot.cat, but you'd be talking with other cat lovers. It might be difficult to discern the community from the local timelines. Also, some of the ones that you mention are just general social instances. Each instance has an about page that you can look at to get a better idea of what it is organized around. [1] [1]: https://mastodon.art/about https://mastodon.art/about
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Something important to note is that though your local instance is often closest to you, all of the instances talk and you have access to the entire network (or nearly all of it) from any instance.
tscs37 9y ago
It should be noted that while this is uncomfortable for Twitter and US culture, for the Japenese this is acceptable behaviour. It's one of the reasons I like Mastodon; I'm not forced to follow US culture.

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I'm very curious, what kind of communities and subjects have embraced Mastodon? A while back there was a lot of noise about how it was a popular place with tho

by willvarfar 9y ago

Kihashi 9y ago
Many of the instances are organized around a particular community. For example, toot.cat is for "cats and the people that love them". witches.town is "made to provide a nice place on Mastodon for queer, feminists, anarchists and stuff as well as their sympathizers." However, as you'd expect, you might not talk strictly about cats on toot.cat, but you'd be talking with other cat lovers. It might be difficult to discern the community from the local timelines. Also, some of the ones that you mention are just general social instances. Each instance has an about page that you can look at to get a better idea of what it is organized around. [1] [1]: https://mastodon.art/about https://mastodon.art/about
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Something important to note is that though your local instance is often closest to you, all of the instances talk and you have access to the entire network (or nearly all of it) from any instance.
tscs37 9y ago
It should be noted that while this is uncomfortable for Twitter and US culture, for the Japenese this is acceptable behaviour. It's one of the reasons I like Mastodon; I'm not forced to follow US culture.