Barely a week in and we all get an awesome example of why decentralisation is a good thing

Mastodon let’s you do exactly this, I think lemme should too

Hi. I just got here too. The app is bad and it’s a little quiet but it seems to be full of nice folk. It’s got that feeling of starting fresh.

Wow it really IS like Twitter!

Same. What’s kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren’t a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don’t feel like you are being drowned out

That’s what I’m enjoying about it so far too. Content is sparse but that’s okay. I’m so tired of being marketed to, of being a product. These open source federated apps are janky and quieter, but they feel more real. These aren’t algorithms pushing engagement and outrage or ads every 10 seconds.

Control and money. They can serve more ads and harvest your data more easily if they control the platform