Jeroen Flamman @jflamman@mastodon.social

Looking back, the #90s were such a cool time of subculture experimentation, uninhibited silliness, and new electronic music genres popping up all the time. Even as a little kid I was enjoying it all.

Exempli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYi5u9BhtI

And @jflamman is on Mastodon!

Meet the People Illustrating the Brutality of War in Ukraine https://www.wired.com/story/artists-in-ukraine-war/

@jflamman Hey!

The AndroidPIT article about Mastodon thinks that Mastodon "probably won't work" because:

- new users don't know who to follow or what to engage with
- additional complexity (instances, local/federated timelines) is a turn off

I find this the exact opposite of my experience. It was obvious what to do when you were new. The federated timeline had all the activity in it. When I learned that Mastodon could federate with other (GS) instances (people talked about it on the federated timeline after all), I looked at their public timelines and found more activity. Just knowing about federation helped me understand the concept of local and federated timelines.

My impression is that the writer was expecting Mastodon to suggest to them a list of people to follow, or provide a gentler onboarding experience. Twitter is not federated, so while a user coming to a Twitter-like service shouldn't expect to know what federation is, I still don't think it's a difficult concept at all.

I think the back button is brocke