NOOOOOOOOO MASTODON IS TOO HARD NOOOOOOOOO WHAT ARE SERVERS NOOOOOOOOO
I’m really getting tired of this obnoxious cycle of explaining the fediverse in kindergarten terms.
Only to get “I don’t get it” as a response and a refusal to elaborate.
“What don’t you get?” “I dunno”
Like at this point I can only assume:
- You weren’t listening.
- You don’t understand anything about this.
- You don’t care, despite the fact you asked.
So for the sake of being as petty and obnoxious, my explanation will be as such:
The fediverse is like spaghetti, and each string of spaghetti is what we call an instance. Each string touches the rest of the strings and can hear the other spaghetti strings talking. Some strings are so mean and rude that other strings decide to put their fingers in their ears and go “LALALALALALA” so they can’t hear or see them.
Now, each string of spaghetti has a name, like this one which is yummyicecream․com. And then there’s this other string cottoncandydelicious․xyz. If you, a spaghetti user like icecream a lot, then you probably will go to yummyicecream․com and make an account. Let’s name this account rockyroad. You are the user @rockyroad and since your spaghetti strand is yummyicecream․com, The user name everyone can see is @rockyroad@yummyicecream.com. Now lets say another user licoricelover is on cottoncandydelicious․xyz then they would be @licoricelover@cottoncandydelicious․xyz.
NOW STOP!! STOP!! WOAH PUT THAT SPAGHETTI STRING THERE DOWN BUCKEROO!! Why are you going to cottoncandydelicious․xyz? You don’t need to do that, you just need to go to the string you made account on, yummyicecream․com and log in to your account, rockyroad. Now you see a post from @licoricelover@cottoncandydelicious.xyz on your feed.
“Wha wha wha, buh buh buh” you say as you drop your fork and start throwing your bowl on the floor. Calm down! It’s okay, this is the FEDIVERSE! Users from one string of spaghetti can talk to users in almost every string of spaghetti in the rest of the bowl. Now as I said earlier, not all strings can hear the other strings of spaghetti, because they decided some other strings of spaghetti are yucky. Like ihatepizza․net. What meanie hates pizza? Well many of the other spaghetti strands decided that particular strand was gross and they didn’t want to show their posts and users on their string of spaghetti.
But lets say, the string your own made an bad decision and decided they didn’t want to show their users posts from users on “peasaregross․org” and they blocked them. But your best friend nerfornothin is on peasaregross․org. Well you can decide to take your account from the yummyicecream․com string of pasta to the cottoncandydelicious․xyz string of pasta. cottoncandydelicious․xyz will let you see posts from users on the peasaregross․org string of pasta.
Mastodon is not all that different from twitter. But mastodon is a bowl of spaghetti, and Twitter is a big pasta shell. You can still block users, you can still make posts and have conversations. But when the fork comes to eat up some of the spaghetti, then some strings of spaghetti might be gone, but the bowl of spaghetti still exists. But if the shell gets eaten by the fork, it’s all gone! 😢
I don’t get it
What do you not get?
I donno.
The most infuriating thing ever, oh my god.
Never forget: the average person is stupid, half of the world is dumber than that. The answer: “I don’t get it” is probably completely genuine. They are really just that slow.
If it ever wants to actually be popular somebody needs to streamline it for the illiterate. It’s better without them tbh.
Someone described the fediverse as the social media of email.
You make an email account with any provider you want and you can talk to any other email in existance.
You make an account with any federated site you want and you use it to access and talk to any other federated site in existance.
Well, except for the ever-growing in complexity fed/defed politics
Someone described the fediverse as the social media of email.
You make an email account with any provider you want and you can talk to any other email in existance.
You make an account with any federated site you want and you use it to access and talk to any other federated site in existance.
Well, GMail and other proprietary providers also blocks certain domains.
Didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
Yeah delivering to Gmail is a huge pain in the ass if you aren’t a giant email provider.
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It’s a tricky multi-step process, ya know? The first step is to tell people where you’re going. The second step is to leave. That’s multiple steps!
Obviously you post your future tweets to the YouTube comment section.
And then you get buried in all those pornbots stealing your comments and reposting it.
Such is life.
Gotta make money somehow…
A creator I follow: “Twitter is becoming worse and worse by the day!”
Me: “Come to Mastodon!”
ACIF: “No, that is full of techbros, and which instance do I even choose?”
(At least it’s not as bad as a former favorite VTuber, who after early criticisms of the Twitter takeover and Elon’s personality, decided to “grow up” and like the “person who’s saving the world” (Musk is now a climate change denialist, and I think he’s just a deregulation promise away from announcing the petrol engine Teslas.))
Out of curiosity, which VTuber?
Cannot really tell you it since it was in private streams (especially not on a public forum), and she’s pretty infamous for changing narrative around herself, then going full denial regarding the past. Some of which is granted since she did things in the past that are under NDA, others were just trying to please the bullies (which she got more thanks to relatively nonexistent moderation), at the cost of her own sanity.
I’ve never really followed the VTuber scene, didn’t know they did private streams. I guess it’s a subscriber thing or something?
Parasociality has gone too far
Yeah, pretty much.
What a consistent person. I bet they are very honest in their day to day life.
It’s one thing if you accidentally spilled info on personal stuff you didn’t want to reveal, and it’s another that you pretend you don’t have the terminal horniness to try to please the haters (which you can’t the moment someone leaks a private stream), and to lie to both yourself and the fans (many of which actually liked that fact about you).
None of that makes sense without context, I’m just pushing back on the normalization of morally ambiguous at best streamers doing all of this shifting narrative shit to the poor gaslit saps lured into a parasocial relationship.
