(currently under reconstruction)
Actually, it does matter: the choice of your “home instance”. Supposedly, you can “chose ANY server” to start with #Mastodon and enter the #fediverse – and (they say) you don´t have to worry about it. Well, it turns out, this is not completely true… But before I dig a little deeper into the “why?”…
from twitter to mastodon? … well, how does this feel like? “This is the beginning of the end for twitter!” say many and leave – either completely or with a packed bag, while simultaneously opening accounts on Mastodon, counter.social or even starting alternative ideas. And yes, this is what it feels like – the declining…
Roaming around in the halls of re:publica / Media Convention Berlin, I wonder how much lines of text are filled with words of banalities, when only occasionally, interesting insights show up in the steady stream of tweets, posts and messages. Not that I criticize in any kind of way the possibility to freely express our thoughts…