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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Mastodon is a bubble. You have primarily highly educated, tech-literate nerds on that platform.

    Obviously people are more civil and polite there, than some raging uneducated losers and trolls on facebook.

    As the fediverse grows, the userbase will obviously lose this current isolated tech-wizard school vibe, and feel more like going into a random pub in a big city. Regardless if Meta joins the fediverse or not.


  • When I used Facebook a few years ago, my feed was mostly memes, ads and personal posts from friends and family.

    Maybe I never got the ragebait political stuff, because everyone in my friend circle wasn’t keen on being the sad guy that publicly yells at clouds on facebook.

    Popular hashtags on Twitter and to some extend even on Mastodon, just makes you feel bad for the mental health of these perma-raging users tho.

    Political spaces in general on every social platform are just magnets for misery.





  • Maybe you could try to convince through other features, like sending sharper images, videos, audio messages or video calling etc.

    If you get closer with her friend circle (or if she gets closer to your friend circle), you could propose to make a group chat, where you can keep each other up to date or plan future activities together. Your wife will probably not want to miss out on that.

    Don’t talk about encryption or security to normal people, who are not into tech. They do not care. Only talk about features, that they can actually use, and only in situations were this would be useful. Don’t be preachy about your messenger use, don’t make them feel stupid.