Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> supposedly people hated it</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Fanta-NG</p>
<p>the existence of pepsi max implies the existence of coca cola neo</p>
<p>"And oil". Sorry, I'm not reading your smart-ass wrong article.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span> <br />Oh, and I should add, I say this as a paying Patreon member for Mastodon! So I'm even putting money into this. I'd rather pay for a service than have it enshittify. And I'm glad that that hasn't happened here.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span> </p><p>As I have said many times before, I understand where the Mastodon design is coming from and I respect that. It's just not really the design for me (just as the "one single place where everyone is" design isn't for others).</p><p>Because of it, I just have not gotten as much value out of Mastodon as on Bsky as I have from X and am starting to get from Bsky. We may just want different things. I'm glad Mastodon exists for those who want its design.</p>
<p>And <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> , I did very explicitly say "instance" in my post. Apologies for not writing a full technical manuscript in it. But instances and cross-instance peering politics, etc., are central to the Mastodon experience in a way they are not on X or Bsky (for now; though Bsky is ostensibly distributed, I'm glad that for now it's not really). ↵</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> </p><p>To further complicate things, instances have different peering policies. I believe one of the main PL instances decided that mastodon.social was too full of Nazis or something and hence doesn't treat it as a full peer (I'm not up on the details). That makes the discovery harder, and things less likely to appear across instances. ↵</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> </p><p>But I'm also interested in systems discussion. That's in a different instance. I am *very* interested in education, cogsci, and sociology, and learned a lot about it from finding and following people on Twitter. That *must* be happening here, but I don't even know where — I've seen virtually NONE of it. ↵</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span></p>