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I understand HOW mastodon works. I've got my account. But I still don't understand WHY. I got into twitter and facebook when I was a university student who gav
by ohthehugemanate 8y ago
I understand HOW mastodon works. I've got my account. But I still don't understand WHY.
I got into twitter and facebook when I was a university student who gave a crap about broadcasting myself to the world. Now I'm old and don't care anymore, and I'm not deluded enough to think that anyone else cares. Is there a use case that goes beyond teenagers chatting at the lockers?
- codesections 8y agoYou clearly see value in HackerNews—my use case for Mastodon isn't that different from my use case for HN. My instance (https:/fosstodon.org) is mostly focused on free and open source software (hence the name). Conversations there tend to be a lot like conversations on HN, but with the benifit of a local community where you get to know the regulars. (I'm not saying that there's no purely personal talk—but think "office water cooler" not "high school lockers")
- vageli 8y agoJust a friendly heads up, I'm getting a certificate error on your site (cert expired 30 April).
- codesections 8y agoThanks! That was because I put the wrong link; fixed now. (And it's my instance only in the "my country" sense—I'm a user there, but I don't run it or anything.)
- Avamander 8y agoYou missed a slash, the link doesn't work.