It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Even better.

Most instances have human moderation, gating for bots, and yes, and you actually have to take 5-10 minutes to figure out how it all works, so the stupid people are automatically excluded by sheer complexity.

I fucking love Mastodon.

[–] belunos@lemmus.org 6 points 3 days ago

That's not the problem. The problem is how fucking slow it is. It has such few users, I see the same post in the early am as the late pm. IRL I'm an introvert, but online I'm a social fucking butterfly, and I need to give and receive attention. Also, you are highly overestimating yourself if you think dumb people can figure this out, because I'm dumb af

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