Why This Reviewer Hails Mastodon as a Refuge From Twitter
According to Nystedt’s review, “the system is designed to encourage thoughtful posting — not selfish or gratuitous posts … [and] it’s even simple to contribute descriptions of images you’re posting for the visually impaired, something Twitter doesn’t bother turning on by default.” The only thing Mastodon misses, he added, is his Twitter friends: “even though there’s a tool to help you find your Twitter friends on Mastodon, there aren’t too many so far.”
“More than anything,” he said, “the change in social networks has given me a new lease on digital life. After years of feeling anxious and unhappy checking my tweets and keeping up my personal brand, it’s like I’ve moved to a new town where nobody knows me, but everyone is looking to make new friends. Isn’t that why we all signed up for this stuff in the first place?”
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