[prepend]

I like your earnest request.

I’ve followed mastodon for a while but have never known anyone else who uses it so didn’t get into a particular server. All the public servers didn’t really seem interesting to me.

So this seemed like a problem for me as a loner as the people I actually knew weren’t going to join.

Twitter, for all its flaws, is dead simple to join and start yelling.

[aliqot]

Unless you dont have a telephone, like me. You get to sign up, then inevitably after your first tweet your account is flagged for review, requiring phone to interact further.

I don't have a phone, I'm Amish, I just wanted an account to see the 4th and 5th posts in a "twitter thread" someone posted to HN and it keeps locking the screen with a signup/login modal after I scroll to the 3rd tweet in the thread.

After a while I just wonder if I'm not the target audience and move on, found nitter.net so that's neat.

[gremlinsinc]

Are you trolling? How are you on hn if you're Amish? I mean you at least need a PC or smartphone.

[aliqot]

You might look into what Amish life is actually like outside of movies. Most depictions in the media tend to at best be caricatures of our most conservative sects like Schwartzentruber Amish. Beachy Amish, Schwarzenau, even Mennonites have some conveniences; a computer is just a tool of my trade. Each community inside each sect will have its own Ordnung, which is just a mutual agreement on values and conduct when it comes to community. I like to joke with my English friends that we're the original neckbeards :)

Here's a good depiction of midwest Amish and the diversity in their communities. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEyPgwIPkHo7lOk-72-tX...

[patrec]

Replace `twitter.com` with `nitter.net`. There are browser extensions that will do it for you.