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I've Been Everywhere, Man (Cohost+Mastodon and elsewhere)
2 years ago
And I said, listen...
No, I'm not leaving here, after all this time I'm probably on FA's ship until they finally run it aground or decommission it, hopefully not for a long time. But with ElonTwitter unravelling and people posting their other sites, especially BlueSky, thought I'd show some other places I've signed up for or used more over the past few months.
Cohost is my favorite of the new sites, I feel like it is closest to what social media should be for me. No corporate influence, no algorithms goading you nor high scores to chase, the Community Guidelines heavily discourage the kind of rancid, abusive, and offensive behaviors other sites fail to stop or actively encourage, and the community there is such it feels like a pastiche of old-school forums I used to frequent and early days of Tumblr but much more relaxed and chill. I'm over there at https://cohost.org/Masakuni
Mastodon, it took me a little bit to get into it, and less so than Cohost, but I've warmed up to it. While on the surface it can seem daunting, I think that the federated framework of it is a strength once you familiarize yourself with it and get used to it, which when I did I got something that feels like the early days of Twitter when I didn't have as many people I was following. Of course, there's the trouble of figuring out which instance you want to sign on, it took me a while before I happened upon one a friend of a friend of a friend helps run, but you can always sign up on the main Mastodon instance then either change your account or make another one on the instance you ultimately end up on. I'm over at https://meow.social/@Masakuni
Twitch - is a bare bones set up, using a laptop speaker to talk through, and lately I have been playing a lot of Link to the Past Randomizer and getting embedded into the racing scene there after participating in a mentor tournament, and prepping for a team-based tournament on that over the next several weeks. Eventually I'll probably get a mic or something, and play other games on there once that dies down. I'm over at https://www.twitch.tv/masakunidragon
Itaku - looks promising, but has been a ghost town for me so far. But check https://itaku.ee/profile/masakuni to help make it less so
As for BlueSky...I'll probably sign up when they ultimately open up to everyone or someone gives me an invite, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to fish for one and I'm not in too much a hurry to get there. I really don't know after over a decade of Twitter's nonsense if I'm ready to get on Jack Dorsey's wild ride yet again, but it seems it's slowly approaching mass adoption, so I might have to have some presence there when I do.
And that is that. There is also here, and other sites I'm around, and Discord, and other places. Wherever I see you at, take care!
No, I'm not leaving here, after all this time I'm probably on FA's ship until they finally run it aground or decommission it, hopefully not for a long time. But with ElonTwitter unravelling and people posting their other sites, especially BlueSky, thought I'd show some other places I've signed up for or used more over the past few months.
Cohost is my favorite of the new sites, I feel like it is closest to what social media should be for me. No corporate influence, no algorithms goading you nor high scores to chase, the Community Guidelines heavily discourage the kind of rancid, abusive, and offensive behaviors other sites fail to stop or actively encourage, and the community there is such it feels like a pastiche of old-school forums I used to frequent and early days of Tumblr but much more relaxed and chill. I'm over there at https://cohost.org/Masakuni
Mastodon, it took me a little bit to get into it, and less so than Cohost, but I've warmed up to it. While on the surface it can seem daunting, I think that the federated framework of it is a strength once you familiarize yourself with it and get used to it, which when I did I got something that feels like the early days of Twitter when I didn't have as many people I was following. Of course, there's the trouble of figuring out which instance you want to sign on, it took me a while before I happened upon one a friend of a friend of a friend helps run, but you can always sign up on the main Mastodon instance then either change your account or make another one on the instance you ultimately end up on. I'm over at https://meow.social/@Masakuni
Twitch - is a bare bones set up, using a laptop speaker to talk through, and lately I have been playing a lot of Link to the Past Randomizer and getting embedded into the racing scene there after participating in a mentor tournament, and prepping for a team-based tournament on that over the next several weeks. Eventually I'll probably get a mic or something, and play other games on there once that dies down. I'm over at https://www.twitch.tv/masakunidragon
Itaku - looks promising, but has been a ghost town for me so far. But check https://itaku.ee/profile/masakuni to help make it less so
As for BlueSky...I'll probably sign up when they ultimately open up to everyone or someone gives me an invite, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to fish for one and I'm not in too much a hurry to get there. I really don't know after over a decade of Twitter's nonsense if I'm ready to get on Jack Dorsey's wild ride yet again, but it seems it's slowly approaching mass adoption, so I might have to have some presence there when I do.
And that is that. There is also here, and other sites I'm around, and Discord, and other places. Wherever I see you at, take care!
I've crossed the deserts bare!
I've breathed the mountain air!
I've traveled I've done my share!