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Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again

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"It’s gotten to the point where my Twitter and Mastodon accounts, side-by-side, look like they were written by different people."

This is a very interesting point. As much as many of us would like to think that we'll just be ourselves wherever we are, we will conform somewhat to the culture of our group to varying degrees. It may be the culture at work or in hobby groups or social media. I suppose we all may have jumping off points as well. I left facebook because my peers evolved into parodies of the grumpy old man, bashing "kids today" and millennials, and toxic political ranting. It certainly didn't seem like home to me.

So it's the same concept as reddit having subreddits?

It's more like a usenet/twitter hybrid than reddit.

If you're looking for a reddit alternative in the fediverse, I can't miss the opportunity to toot my own horn: I'm working on a federated link aggregator that you can try at https://littr.me.

Currently it's missing exactly the federation component, so people on Mastodon can't interact with it yet, but it's getting there. :)

This is neat. There is another one one there called Prismo, but I'm not sure if it's still being actively developed or how far the author got with it:

https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

There are multiple ones actually.

On prismo I haven't seen any work being done in a while (more than half a year according to the repo you linked :D). I think the dev got a bit discouraged after his instance had a data loss problem. It used to be at https://prismo.xyz but seems to be down.

One which is pretty active (development wise) is https://dev.lemmy.ml. But they don't have federation yet either.

Not really. If you are on multiple Mastodon/Pleroma/Pixelfed/Misskey servers, you have a separate account on each of them. Some servers are meant for certain topics (mastodon.art is mostly artists) and different servers will have different lists of banned servers (so you might be able to follow all your friends on Server A, but not import that full list into Server B).

People with multiple accounts with the same name/icons often call these accounts "alts" .. and it's kinda easy to create a fake alt for someone (although KeyBase supports mastodon so you can kinda setup your "identity" that way; although each individual server has to be added to the big Keybase list).

It's really more like old IRC/AOL chat rooms .. with threads.

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