I joined Fosstodon, a community oriented around FOSS. So when I signed up, I got a sense that I was joining a community. I don't get that sense when I sign up for an email provider. Mastodon servers have rules and themes and therefore attract certain kinds of people. Protonmail might do this too, but it's not a social network, so I never meet those people through the service.
Also, ducking into other communities to grab and share content feels a bit weird. I didn't join radical.town or whatever, so I don't really feel like I'm a part of that community.
Does that make sense? I don't think I've fully processed this stuff yet, so it might not be a great answer.
Ah, yes I suppose. I meant the email analogy in the sense that you can communicate with people who aren't on your instance.
> I didn't join radical.town or whatever, so I don't really feel like I'm a part of that community.
That's fine, and you aren't required to feel so anyway. They're just other people on another instance, who are also in your timeline.
> Does that make sense? I don't think I've fully processed this stuff yet, so it might not be a great answer.
It's alright! I understand it can be slightly jarring at first. I run a single-user instance so it's truly quite like Twitter -- there's no "community" that I'm a part of, and the feed I see is something I've curated for myself by following people across the fediverse.
How has that experience been? The thought crossed my mind but I didn't know if the effort/cost would be worth it.
Also, how much of your curated feed is Mastodon-like, and how much is other kinds of content? Been poking around at blog platforms that connect to the fediverse and would love to hear some insight if you have any.
> How has that experience been? The thought crossed my mind but I didn't know if the effort/cost would be worth it.
It's been awesome, really. I run Pleroma[1], which is magnitudes lighter than Mastodon, and I can comfortably run it on my Raspberry Pi, from home. And due to the nature of ActivityPub, my server going down doesn't mean I miss out on messages/mentions etc. It all federates when I come back online.
> Also, how much of your curated feed is Mastodon-like, and how much is other kinds of content? Been poking around at blog platforms that connect to the fediverse and would love to hear some insight if you have any.
It's all mostly just Mastodon/Pleroma and PeerTube on the occasion. The other stuff doesn't get too much traction across the network, at least from my experience.
Also, ducking into other communities to grab and share content feels a bit weird. I didn't join radical.town or whatever, so I don't really feel like I'm a part of that community.
Does that make sense? I don't think I've fully processed this stuff yet, so it might not be a great answer.