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From your description I’m not sure you understand Mastodon. People who don’t know about it and read your description will get the wrong impression, at least. Y
by jrmg 4y ago
From your description I’m not sure you understand Mastodon. People who don’t know about it and read your description will get the wrong impression, at least.
You can follow someone on any Mastodon server from your account on any server. It’s not siloed like Discord (which, ironically, actually is a centralized service!) - it’s much more like Twitter than Discord in real use.
There may be no official ‘core experience’, but there is a de-facto ‘core experience’: a stream of posts from people you follow, from any server, in chronological order.
- wheats 4y agoI agree with everything you said, and also want to point out Twitter doesn't really have much of a "core experience" shared across its entire userbase either. Trending topics and promoted tweets on Twitter are largely determined by your language, location, who you follow, and interests Twitter has determined you have. You and another Twitter user are going to see very different content shown to you even beyond the things you subscribe to.
- themagician 4y agoMaybe I don’t. So what happens when a server gets deleted? Isn’t your account bound to that server?
- jrmg 4y agoSomewhere in the middle. There’s a way to migrate your account to another server, including keeping follower relationships intact (so people don’t need to follow you again - they’ll automatically follow the new account). Past posts don’t get migrated though. If the old server is still running your past posts remain there. If the server just suddenly shuts down with no notice, though, there’s nothing you can do.