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Oh, these tribal migrations have happened before. Most people indeed leave, but some do actually find that they like it more each time such a wave happens.

Fediverse is in the best sense of the word, weird. You have to embrace the weirdness to understand it. Not everyone can, or will. It would take a lot of time for that weirdness to be ironed out so that most people would be comfortable using it, but I don't think many in the community developing it are interested in that.

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To be honest though, I’ve been in many weird enough places on Twitter that I can confidently say that Mastodon is really dull, quiet, and less diverse compared to there.

Did you come to Mastodon over the last couple weeks? Because a lot of the signal from the more interesting parts of fedi got lost over the twitter newcomers yelling how it is much better.

And like, from people I follow, most of the more interesting ones aren't even using Mastodon, but rather Pleroma, Miskkey, or some forks of those. It's a diverse network, not only in types of people, but also in types of software. I would suggest you explore it more after a month or so, after this twitter wave blows over and dies off once again, as there's certainly some very nice communities out there.

No, I toured some servers around three years ago... and ultimately there wasn't really anyone who I was interested in. Unlike Twitter, which I have seen all kinds of interesting people and interesting discussions. (Maybe it's because Mastodon is a bit too much slanted in the tech space, and I really want to have some distance from it since I pretty much already fill all of my tech discussion quota here.)

Ah, fair, a lot of discourse is centered around tech in many instances. There are some people that mostly talk about other things though, but there are indeed less of them, and they can be harder to find. You still can find them, but if you don't want to go through tech discourse to find them, it's understandable why you didn't.

I agree. I like the weirdness, and I don't think it can survive mainstreaming. Mainstreaming always means blandness.

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