FYI those green checks are just emoji ❎:white_check_mark:
@StephenReid Twitter used to have the "firehose" feed, but that became impractical years ago
@Pixxella the federated timeline would let you read both, yes.
@StephenReid well yeah, that's kinda the point though, I don't want to have to sign up on more than one instance, just to keep my digital *me* secure. Not that I'm worried about people impersonating my nobody ass, but still
@StephenReid that seems like potentially a problem to me, I can imagine impersonation being an issue. But I could just not "get it" yet?
Does decentralization mean people on other instances can sign up with the same @ username? Can I move @potentato to another instance?
@StephenReid I've kind of enjoyed watching their "here's what's new" emails, but I guess not enough to go back until now lol
@golero decentralization is pretty great, yeah. Though Diaspora never really took off. I can't actually remember where I ended up setting up my Diaspora account. I worry that will happen to me here?
Went back to check out Ello. Apparently Ello is now Tumblr
On the other hand, this seems more fully-formed than Ello did when I signed up there.
Pretty sure Mastodon is going to replace Twitter the same way Ello replaced Facebook, but wth I'll give it a shot anyway
