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1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either

1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either join an existing instance (there are about 10k servers out there), or just join mastodon.social (and that's where most people are anyways). 2. When I joined I didn't know anybody either, but in a short time I connected to a lot of new interesting people. Now I have my own bots to relay content from people that are still on Twitter, and I have my own organic circle of followers - that's almost the best of the two worlds. 3. Muting profiles (and, even better, instances) is a good way of getting rid of a lot of spam/undesired content.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random. 2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with. 3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.
- hkt 4y ago
  3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on. ...is that not most experiences of twitter? As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).
- blacklight 4y ago
  The closed signups on mastodon.social are only temporary. They've really had a huge spike of signups after Musk took over Twitter and people jumped boats, as well as a lot of automatically generated spam accounts that mods are still trying to prune. I'm quite confident that signups will reopen once the situation gets back in control. When it comes to muting, in my experience you don't have to mute 98% of the profiles. Spam usually comes from a handful of instances that are relayed to the instance you're registered - in the Fediverse instances can relay to one another, and tap into each other's feeds. If you have a lot of spam, that's usually because of the content from 3-4 relayed instances. Good instance admins usually intervene in this cases and mute that spam on instance level. If they don't, you can usually mute those few instances yourself, instead of muting every individual account.
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Gordonjcp 4y ago

1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random. 2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with. 3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.

hkt 4y ago
3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on. ...is that not most experiences of twitter? As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).
blacklight 4y ago
The closed signups on mastodon.social are only temporary. They've really had a huge spike of signups after Musk took over Twitter and people jumped boats, as well as a lot of automatically generated spam accounts that mods are still trying to prune. I'm quite confident that signups will reopen once the situation gets back in control. When it comes to muting, in my experience you don't have to mute 98% of the profiles. Spam usually comes from a handful of instances that are relayed to the instance you're registered - in the Fediverse instances can relay to one another, and tap into each other's feeds. If you have a lot of spam, that's usually because of the content from 3-4 relayed instances. Good instance admins usually intervene in this cases and mute that spam on instance level. If they don't, you can usually mute those few instances yourself, instead of muting every individual account.

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