you know, i feel like i've got enough wisdom to keep quiet when i really want to say 'i told you so'

we owe it to ourselves to ditch using mastodon as a project. honestly the fediverse ended up following the pareto principle because of mastodon. and then mastodon itself within mastodon dot social.

where is the federated, horizontal system we were promised? how is it acceptable to have one instance to rule them all?

very little of mastodon as a piece of software is praiseworthy, with its complete lack of modularity, and its wasteful use of people's computing resources.

the man himself refuses to listen to the community, and runs the show as if he is inseperable from the project.

@vidak i haven't paid enough attention to the protocol nor the software, so i am part of the problem. i did actively avoid mastodon.social when signing up, because i wanted to be more federated than that. @sacha has set up GoToSocial, and i've seen several instances set up snac as an alternative. i've just moved instances for the first time, and it didn't kill me :) so maybe next year i'll get deeper

@jaredj @vidak after a few initial hiccups due to user error (and a lingering issue that stops some people from following me that I don't have the technical skill or mental bandwidth to figure out), I'm mostly happily settled into my self-hosted #GoToSocial instance. I'm enjoying scanning the #emacs hashtag weekly with my mastoden.el code for combining the timelines from multiple servers, I'm slowly building the habit of posting little status updates and thoughts, and I like the glimpses I get into other people's thoughts. My limitations at this point are more non-technical than technical. :) There's probably a better thing out there, but that's okay, there's still enough for me to learn from and figure out even with what I've got.