Mastodon and Why You Should Be There

If you are a person who enjoys sharing your interests, you’ll do fine on Mastodon, and I suggest you should join. Like right now. Do it.

That’s my pitch. Mastodon is a place for people to connect without the influence of algorithms to support billionaires’ financial interests or the late-stage capitalist ad market.

I highly doubt I would be participating in Blaugust if I hadn’t jumped to Mastodon last year.

A cartoon planet with a river in the shape of a Y. small mastodon walking around it.

Words under the planet read:
Independent always
Mastodon is free and open-source software developed by a non-profit organization. Public support directly sustains development and evolution.

Sound good? Let’s make it easy for you to join, too.

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X means No

When I see the letter X, it reads to me, “Do Not Enter.” It is telling me I am not allowed. X is a sign to go no further. Thanks for finally making it clear to me, Elon.

A smiling cartoon sperm whale being lifted by ropes by eight orange cartoon birds

I understand the Twitter I enjoyed died at the end of October 2022. I moved to Mastodon just over a week later. I returned to posting on the bird site three times. Each time it was to post about Blizzard games. It was about the high of getting the retweets and likes from it and longing for what it used to be for me. I was misguided. The problem came from the fact the place was still there, and it was up to me to say enough.

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