mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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So apparently I’m not shadow-banned on mastodon.social … thanks to @babe and @stephanie for checking.

Still, this show limiting/shadow banning thing is a problem. Block people if you want to but don’t gaslight them.

Aral Balkan

I really need to write something about why having mega instances on the fediverse is a problem that’s longer than a toot.

Probably a good time for a post on the subject given I now have about the same number of people following me here as I did when I closed my Twitter account.

(It took close to eight years to get there.)

@aral

There's a difference between just putting some stuff out there and engaging and posting for an audience. Mastodon is great for the first, especially for niche interests. Not so great to build a large audience.

I think it of as tv shows that reach the 18-35 audience as having small numbers but important ones to advertisers as opposed to a lowest common denominator to try and reach everyone.

But the fediverse isn't what's important to everyone, but to different segments of society.

@aral Technically I could probably run my own instance, but there’s no way I want to deal with the legal exposure, especially given what was argued at SCOTUS yesterday.