>Mastodon was data mining its users the entire time.

>Trump literally gabb’d himself within an hour of setting up his MASTODON instance.

Good thing I like women, so I use Pleroma like a real human being.

@gear Mastodon is for fags Not surprising considering its developer is an (((apple)))fag

@mikuphile

To be fair, Fedi in general was made for crypto trannies to discuss and have a “safe” space away from normies. So we are technically the invasive species.

@gear @mikuphile nah. It was basically just a strange little network of IT workers and tech enthusiasts. Eternal September came, but it still was mostly this for a small while. Then Mastodon came and that's when shit hits the fan the the IT people started getting outnumbered. Then came the Japanese users and it goes from there

@coolboymew @mikuphile

So what? The trannies are invasive species ?

@gear @mikuphile just saying. Been here during the first eternal september when we were all still using Gnu Social, until these starting blowing up one by one

@coolboymew @mikuphile

Laymens term dude.
I don’t know half the jargon you’re talking about

@gear @mikuphile Eternal September is an old term about a shitload of user influx. Twitter started putting out weird shit and that got people worried. We actually weren't that much and half or more of those people quit shortly after

Gnu Social is what was there before Pleroma and Mastodon. There might have been others. The thing was an abandoned project and the instances all self destructed under the weight of new instances and activity

@coolboymew @gear @mikuphile "eternal september" was a term from the usenet (super old internet service) days, it meant "it's september so the students are coming back on the network and everything is turning to shit"

@Moon @gear @mikuphile @coolboymew Other communities/networks have analogs to it. 2007 is considered 4chan's Eternal September, for example.

@xianc78 @Moon @gear @mikuphile yeah, when I first came we disturbed the old Gnu Social instances quite a little bit. But it was absolutely nothing compared to when Mastodon came

@coolboymew @gear @mikuphile @Moon I obviously came after that. But the arrival of Poast has truly drained the quality here. While there are some descent users there, that instance has made this place more of a far-right echo chamber and that shit is starting to get old.

@xianc78 @coolboymew @gear @mikuphile @Moon It's basically /pol/ but with identities, so perhaps worse, perhaps better. At the very least you can't have 20 different same-faggers come in and start calling each other jews, post "> X > white", and hyper-derail whatever the topic at hand is.