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by horsemans 2948 days ago
There are plenty of unique and interesting posters on Mastodon. mastodon.technology is full of vintage computer experts, BBS operators, people working to revitalize Gopher as an alternative to the ad-saturated web, and more. And that’s just one instance. There are other instances where people congregate to discuss art, music, books, and punk rock. There’s a Star Wars themed instance, there’s safe places for sex workers and LGBTQ posters, and all you have to do is care about one of these things to find a whole world of enthusiasts. Searching http://instances.social gives you a huge list of registered instances.

But if you think people are divided up into “normal” and “not normal” (and your definition of normal is “some CEO”) then yeah, maybe Mastodon isn’t right for you.
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TekMol 2948 days ago 

    full of vintage computer experts, BBS operators,
    people working to revitalize Gopher
That's what I meant with 'crazy people' :)
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laumars 2948 days ago
"crazy" is a little unfair there. Particularly with just how mainstream it has become to collect and use retro hardware.

I think what you're trying to say is "the aforementioned social network doesn't have people who share the same interests as me" rather than it being full of people who are mentally unwell.

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AsyncAwait 2948 days ago
So your definition of 'normal people' is people who have no hobby and are in no way interesting? Are artists 'crazy' too? There's plenty of those on Mastodon. If your answer is yes, am not sure I want to follow the 'normal people'.

As another poster put it "An alternative to the mainstream doesn't appeal to people who don't reject the mainstream".

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ld00d 2948 days ago
https://mastodon.technology/@horsemans/100044350950230650
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ianamartin 2948 days ago
I'm pretty sure the instance dedicated to sex workers got shut down because of SESTA/FOSTA.
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aussiegeek 2948 days ago
No, they have just been having traffic issues, DDOS and of course can't use any US based services.

One of the founders wrote about it yesterday https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-r...

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ianamartin 2947 days ago
Glad to hear that's back up. The last thing I heard about it was CloudFlare giving them the boot.
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