Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:
I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.
For those of you who realized that voting is not going to work, read this book, if you haven't already. It has the real solution.
I now have a twtxt feed on my site!
https://xianc78.codeberg.page/twtxt.txt
If you don't know what twtxt is, it's an ultra-minimalist, decentralized, microblogging protocol. It's just a simple text file containing your profile and your most recent posts. It's basically like RSS but for microblogs. It's so simple, you can host your feed on a static website like mine, a cloud storage service like Dropbox, a P2P network like IPFS, or a Git repository.
You can follow users using a twtxt client, or if you want a more user friendly experience, you can use a yarn.social instance which hosts your feed on their servers and gives you a web-interface similar to Mastodon or Pleroma.
More info here:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/
Extensions to the protocol are here:
https://dev.twtxt.net/
I'm still going to be on here, but there is now another place where you can follow me.
oh please no
Whether you are a large company, a political party, an international news agency, an NGO or a government institution, you should seriously consider running your own Mastodon server, or anything else that suits your business on the Fediverse.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html
Oculus Rift creator is a genuine fucking psychopath.
https://www.roadtovr.com/palmer-luckey-sword-art-online-headset-can-kill-user-real-life/