I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about your objection of "the requirement to select anything in the first place" with regards to a Mastodon server.
With that in mind, if email were to be released today, it'd be deemed "too hard for people to understand" because you have to choose what email provider you're going to use. Are you going with AOL, or are you going to roll up your own? With some you even have to hand over money before you get access. Just too difficult!
I mean, if there ever was a time for a grass roots growing of a third party, it would be NOW, not a year before the election with Putin-stooge Jill Stein.
How did you decide which email provider you were going to go with? Did you set up your own server? Or perhaps gain access to an address through a community? Or did you go with a normies server like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail?
I use masto for myself, not for likes. I use it to get SilentSunday and Mosstodon photos and to goof around with people I meet in the online space.
Sure it'd be nice to see a like or a response to a shit post, but for that you need to be followed by people who share your sensibilities, as there's no algorithm boosting your stuff into other people's timelines. Unless you use a relevant hashtag that's being followed by others.
But then it's not federated. It's all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that's not the same thing as federated.
Yes, and we need much more like that if we want this platform to be sucessful as a whole. Normies want to join social medias, not clubs.
Why? There's plenty of general servers aimed at normies that don't require you to write an essay about yourself.
Let those specialty servers be specialty servers. Some only want artists, some only want neurodivergent people, some only want trans people on their platform. That's their right! They get to decide who comes on their platform and who doesn't. It's not up to you to decide that for them. You need to understand that the people hosting these servers are not gazillionaires that do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they want to foster a certain atmosphere and a certain community on their server, and they do their best to keep disruptive people out. And one way of doing that is by limiting who gets on.
So instead of desperately trying to join blahaj_artists.social, why not join normies.social like mastodon.social or mstdn.social, or mastodon.coffee or any of the other 'normie' mastodon servers.
Go here, select "Sign up process: instant" and choose any of the servers on that page, and you'll get in, without having to write an essay about yourself.
The Aglet song from Phineas and Ferb. Just to make everyone aware of the name of that plasticky end of your laces.
I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.
Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.
This could mean that there’s room on the left for a brand new party.
You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.
But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.
Sucks to be them.
What other server is there?