**Erin 🕯** @er1n@social.mecanis.me · May 31, 2018, 22:47

**Erin 🕯** @er1n@social.mecanis.me · May 31, 2018, 22:47

Erin 🕯 @er1n@social.mecanis.me

something really heckin cool: popular posts on mastodon/the fediverse routinely get numbers like this. this is really fucking giant for a network that people have said is dying at least three or four times

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:03

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:03

@er1n The most toxic thing for Mastodon/Fediverse is the all the people who spread this idea that it's a ghost town. We could be expanding even faster if people stopped spewing such kneejerk bullshit. It doesn't have Kanye West, but it's a hell of a lot more social here. More decentralized projects need to utilize decentralization better like Mastodon does.

**🍓 Tiffs🍓** @dumpling · May 31, 2018, 23:22

**🍓 Tiffs🍓** @dumpling · May 31, 2018, 23:22

@ninmi
@er1n

Isn't not having Kanye West a selling point?

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:33

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:33

@dumpling @er1n I don't really know Kanye, but I'd like to have some of the bigger twitter accounts I follow over here as well.

**🍓 Tiffs🍓** @dumpling · 2018-05-31T23:39:34Z

🍓 Tiffs🍓 @dumpling

@ninmi
@er1n
That makes sense. I might be in the minority... I like the relative lack of social media influencers and celebrities here. *points to hole dug in garden to avoid latest royal wedding coverage*

May 31, 2018, 23:39 · Mastalab · 1 · 1

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:48

**Ninmi** @ninmi@niu.moe · May 31, 2018, 23:48

@dumpling @er1n Yeah, I do get that. My own priorities lie more on the benefit of having no for-profit central ownership and control for social interaction.

**Lord Bowlich** @lordbowlich@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 00:00

**Lord Bowlich** @lordbowlich@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 00:00

@dumpling @ninmi @er1n It'd be nice if "influencers" just went back to posting anonymously and being part of the crowd instead of hiring of working their butts off trying to build "brands."

There's a few, obscure scholars of Japanese literature who I do miss from Twitter, but no big-name celebs.

**CJ Mallard** @duck57@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 00:59

**CJ Mallard** @duck57@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 00:59

@lordbowlich @dumpling @ninmi @er1n Anonymous free culture is the best of internet culture.

**Samisnack** @Samisnack@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 08:30

**Samisnack** @Samisnack@mastodon.social · Jun 01, 2018, 08:30

@dumpling @ninmi @er1n The only Royal Wedding I care about~ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdqzjsNVQAA3vJL.jpg