Written by Expert Plus
Hi, I'm Expert Plus, and you might had interacted with me before online many times, like on the butterfly app, the elephant app, and the bird app. If you know me, you just simply know all of that already. If you don't – nice to meet you, visitor!..
A while back ego, I was hating the Twitter character limit, which is 280, since that was not enough for me. Switching to an elephant-based platform didn't helped either: turns out 500 characters weren't enough for me either (and still don't).
At the time, I didn't knew much about Fediverse, I knew only Mastodon as the platform to exist, so, would you want to imagine my shock, when I started to view people on my Mastodon timeline who were writing posts longer then 500 characters?!
After reaching out and asking, turns out more platforms then Mastodon exists. That's how I learned Fediverse, my man.
The user who I was talking with, was a Pleroma user. As time passed by, as of now, I managed to try many ActivityPub platforms such as Friendica, Pleroma, and also – !!! – WriteFreely.
Man, of course I did find out about write.as's existence, but unfortunately at the time I came really too late: the signups were closed and the only way you could sign up was a paid signup. I only recenly (through Bluesky and Threads) had discovered that they had reopened the signups!
Which is of course is great, but at the time it wasn't open.
On Internet, I've been since 2019 – althrough I did used it back in 2014.
It is good to see that a lot of interesting minds are on here – the Internet – yet unfortunately, it is hard to find them on Internet.
The problem is: centralization.
You know 'hem. They are often referred to as “Big Tech”. They aren't welcome in some spaces; but in some they are. A good crowd is on these platforms, and they manipulate which content is shown, by using a thing that is referred to often as, algorithm.
While algorithms themselves aren't bad, it's bad for them to be under influence of these big companies.
But that is another story for the next time!..
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