by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Many moons ago, I briefly used the would-be Twitter alternative Mastodon, which features “toots” instead of ‘tweets.” It went into the my use of the service with a lot of enthusiasm because the service is distributed, using a concept much like the UUCP of Usenet back in the day.
I quickly soured on Mastodon for a number of reasons. One is, at that point, at least, it was literally impossible to delete your account if the mood so struck you. Also, I found the services “trigger warning” feature was abused by “woke” people who seemed determined make your life hell if you didn’t hide ANYTHING that THEY found objectionable.
It was all so subjective, that you just couldn’t please everyone and yet you also made all the woke people mad because you didn’t know whatever the orthodox they had in their mind about whatever thing you “tooted” that they didn’t like for some personal, obscure reason.
I eventually left the service after just a few days, never to be seen again. It should not be this hard to come up with at Twitter alternative. If I can think up a really strong candidate, I’m sure some Tech Bro can, too.