@taylorlorenz next time you get asked in TV say: "it is like twitter but you all are not there, that is the killer feature"

@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social it is yours. It is noy up to some billionaire that sits on his golden throne to dictate to you what you and your community need.

It's your culture, your morales, your ethics. Not some pedophiles apprentice to tell you how to live.​

@taylorlorenz it's easier and safer to talk freely in your house or on the streets that in a random bar or on your work

@taylorlorenz The Fediverse is like the phone network.

No matter which phone provider you use (provider=service like Masto, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Bookwyrm etc.) or no matter which phone plan you have at that provider (plan=the different servers of the service) you can always call anyone. You can always switch providers or plans. And still keep all your contacts. And still call anyone.

@taylorlorenz When friends ask me: the fediverse is not a social media platform but a social network. The functionality and technical setup is comparable to e-mail (servers, addresses, clients) rather than a closed system or singular app.

@taylorlorenz to echo probably lots of folks, I find the email metaphor to work well — I can send anyone email and not just folks on Gmail or whatever — what if social media were more like that?

@taylorlorenz your social networks, your data

@taylorlorenz Mastodon is based a communication technology where social media can be implemented in a more decentralized and independent approach. The approach ensures that no one company can take over the media, or go out of business taking the entirely of the social network with it. The longevity of this approach ensures freedom from singular control, and makes it more like email and less like myspace, vine, twitter, or many others.

@taylorlorenz
Things like Twitter and Facebook are a high stress environment.. you're constantly worried you'll say something to upset someone.

Mastodon is chill. It's rare for anyone to take things you post as a personal insult (and if they do, the block button is really effective).

@taylorlorenz

1. Your company, university, or club can run a Mastodon server for itself, under its full control.
2. No one can tell you which apps to use or what kind of functionality it can have.
3. You don't have to chase friends or influencers from platform to platform. Set up a homebase on the Fediverse and follow them remotely wherever they go.
4. You own your contacts. No algorithm keeps you from seeing them, or them from seeing you.
5. Your server can be hosted in your country.

@taylorlorenz
No need for corporate overlords. No one is in charge. It's glorious.

@taylorlorenz
1) The goal of any company is to make money. Baking bread or providing digital platforms are different means of achieveing it. They all have a product and customers. In case of twitter or facebook, the customers are advertisers and the product is time users spend on their platforms. So in order to maximize their profits, they use algorithms, that maximize the users engagement. It doesn't matter if it's more funny cat videos or more fake news and extremist propaganda, whatever gets you engaged, will get amplified. The fediverse does not do that.

@taylorlorenz My main reason is no tech bro can buy it and even if my instance goes bad I can easily relocate to another.

@taylorlorenz “Imagine if all the world’s email, for individuals, companies and governments, was all controlled by just one company; even if the owner of that company wasn’t insane, would that be a good idea? What could go wrong?

And if things did go wrong, would everyone moving to alternative email services run by just a few other big companies, whose systems didn’t talk to each other, solve those problems? Or create new problems?”

Is what we have for email now better? Why?”

@taylorlorenz
The network is built so it can't be controlled by one single entity.
Therefore this entity cannot impose a unique censorship to everyone.

@taylorlorenz Here's my best shot: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate from which

1/2 ”Have you noticed that social-media products, in the long term, can’t seem to manage to stay fun and safe and useful? I have. But there’s one huge exception, a tool that’s been serving billions of us for decades, and works about as well as it ever did. I’m talking about email.