I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.
Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.
Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.
@sitharus I keep hearing this from so many people who are just a bit older than me who actually remember this generation of the Internet. For those of us my age it's like finally getting to experience something that your older sibling remembers so clearly that you've only heard the cool stories about.
