A 90-day Mastodon Check-In

• John

It’s been three months since the MacStories team moved from Twitter to Mastodon. Overall, the experience has been great, but it’s required some adjustments, so I wanted to share some of my longer-term impressions.

Most People on Mastodon Are Nice, But It’s Not the Paradise Some People Paint To Be

I’d argue that this was true on Twitter before I left, too, even when it didn’t always seem that way. The difference is that the negativity of Twitter drowned out or silenced many of the good people there. The overall effect was that even before many people moved to Mastodon, ‘Tech Twitter’ was a pretty quiet place.