MegaMaker - Content warning

Hey friends,

Here's a few thoughts from today:

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Thoughts on Mastodon

I've been trying out Mastodon. People bill it as a "Twitter alternative." While there are some similarities, it's definitely its own thing.

Unlike Twitter, people run their own instances/servers (like mastodon.social or indiehackers.social). When you join an instance, your username gets associated with that server. Here's mine:

​mijustin@mastodon.social​

It's similar to an email (name@gmail.com, name@hotmail.com, etc).

You can still follow people on different servers (you find them in search), and see their posts.

Overall, I'm digging it.

It feels like the early internet (BBS, FidoNet, UseNet, Geocities, message boards). Joining a Mastodon instance is kind of like joining a Geocities "neighborhood" back in the day:

If you want to try out Mastodon, I recommend joining fosstodon.org or indiehackers.social (I'm on mastodon.social/ but it's become much slower with all the new people joining).

You can follow my at: mijustin@mastodon.social​

You can follow Transistor at: transistor@podcastindex.social​

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Content warnings

Mastodon has a feature for posts called "Content Warnings."

​Mike McHargue explains it here:

Here's an example:

This feature is interesting (especially in light of the conversations we've been having around negativity/pessimism online):

I like how this implementation affirms both perspectives "I need to confront/share some (negative) realities with you," and "I need to protect my mental health from a constant stream of negativity."

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Good guides on Mastodon

• ​Everything I know about Mastodon​
• ​Mastodon's user guide​

Cheers,
Justin Jackson

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