I spent a week on Mastodon, the social media platform some are turning to as they abandon Elon Musk's Twitter. This is what it was like.
Some come and watch, others are fleeing the scene. Looking for a similar platform with less dramatic ownership, almostin the ten days following Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
You can still see what people are saying on other servers, but it is a bit glitchy and limits your interactions. Server owners also get to decide which other servers you can interact with, so it could be out of your control.Getting started with the Community tabMastodon handily gives you a list of suggested follows, and I mostly added a few tech journalists to try and recreate my Twitter feed.
Hashtags began to phase out of use on Twitter as people just searched for phrases rather than the tags themselves. And even worse, they don't seem to work properly on Mastodon. The top article was an interview with Mastodon's founder, Eugen Rochko, about why everyone was leaving Twitter; second was a Bloomberg piece about Twitter layoffs; and third was just a link to a tweet.
There were calls for trans rights and a general strike too, while many Brits used the #FBPE hashtag to identify themselves as anti-Brexit.Blue-tick emojis let users impersonate Harry Styles and Taylor Swift.Rules vary between servers – most of them are strict about NSFW content, others basically specialize in it.
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