11-11-2022, 06:09 PM
(11-11-2022, 04:57 PM)dtkmelissa Wrote: I have set up over at Counter Social so far but it currently feels empty. I haven't found a ton of people over there that I know and I'm not seeing much housing conversation to join yet - which is what I spend a lot of time on in Twitter.
I'm on a waitlist for Project Mushroom which is apparently somehow connected to Mastodon so I think I'll end up over there as well. I don't plan on sticking with both Counter Social and Mastodon though so I'll see where I can find the most connection on issues of interest to me.
Counter.Social's software is a fork of Mastodon. It used to be federated, but the founder of Mastodon didn't like that CS blocked certain countries, so many Mastodon nodes blocked CS, so the owner (the Jester) stopped federating and went his own way.
The Short History of CounterSocial and Mastodon from The Jester's point of view.
Wikipedia article about The Jester.
The Notorious Hacker Who’s Trying to Fix Social Media
Counter.Social seems to be good, but it is privately owned by one individual with his own idiosyncratic ideas of how things should be. I am skeptical about that.