[lokedhs]

May I ask what instance you were on? A lot of guides don't talk about it, but there is a dark version of Fediverse, often references as the "freeze peach" instances.

They are generally blocked by most mainstream instances, but enough are open so that you can't still follow a majority of the mainstream content from these instances.

However, when you are on them, the content is very much like how you describe it. That's why I'm curious as to whether you (possibly accidentally) joined the one if those. If you you di, and you're not actively looking for such content, the experience can be quite terrible.

[baxuz]

> May I ask what instance you were on?

That's the problem with all decentralized and/or forked products.

"Oh, you're using the wrong Linux distro, that one sucks."

"You're on the wrong WoW server, that one sucks."

[infinitezest]

Whenever I tell people that I don't like to use Twitter I often hear that I'm just using it wrong. On the other hand, I've been really enjoying my time with Fosstodon.

[baxuz]

Never said that Twitter was good. It's a horrible platform created with the sole purpose of disseminating hot takes and outrage.

[krapp]

That's not a problem, that's literally the feature. If you don't like it, fork it or move. Can't do that with Twitter.

The problem (at least as far as Mastodon goes) is managing identity between instances. Also, clients still seem to be stuck at the "written by programmers for programmers" state of design, so UX isn't up to par to what a normal user might expect much of the time. The decentralized, federated nature of Mastodon is a big deal to programmers and people who care about censorship resistance/software freedom, etc, but all of that should be completely transparent to the end user. It should be as easy to find, join and leave instances - with a single, common identity - as it is to find and join subreddits.

[jonathanstrange]

That's what must have happened to me. I think one of them was called "stereophonic" (or similar) and the other one some weird Belgian with German like "absturztau.be", both were boring but the latter was worse. The third one I don't remember. They had nice descriptions, though, which didn't really match the content. I might give it another try with the biggest US main server, though it's probably not for me anyway since I can't stand Twitter's format either.