I am so curious what would happen here with the atmosphere if everyone, just for 24hours, would write about themselves. Without the addiction of the drama, the news, the bleu bird.

Just open, real conversation, starting with something personal, open. Start with something were you want to give attention to, what is creating a better more authentic world. Instead of focusing on the old world and repeating what is wrong.

We need radical change, also in our words and focus.

#WhyAreYouHere

Finding the #whyareyouhere posts an interesting read. I have a long answer and a short answer, but I’m nearly at my train station so short for now. I’m on aus.social because I like the tenor of the folks that post here. I’m on Mastodon because I never really got into Twitter and Facebook was giving me the shits on multiple levels. I like the independent/federated idea, have been burned by other platforms disappearing: MySpace, Orkut etc.

Hi! If you're reading this, please ask yourself "Why Are You Here?" - let's start with the instance you're on, and expand to mastodon. do you prefer this federated, self hosted model? just trying something new? tell us all.
You can read my and many other responses over at #WhyAreYouHere.
I'd love to read yours.

@JacksonBates I think I posted online first but it might have just been the result of conversations relating to someone who got annoyed and left our instance that myself and @Tarale had at our house so I'm pretty happy both of us being the authors of #WhyAreYouHere :)

they do "raise the stakes" in the film that ultimately plays on (the legitimate imo) fear of the security of devices in your home, and the services that you use. What I think this comes back to is also #WhyAreYouHere on Mastodon.

Make technology to serve you, not you to serve technology and the core component of that is trust. The whole #DepreciateTwitter thing is because Twitter serves twitters bottom line, they lost my trust ages ago but I thought I had nowhere to go.

#whyareyouhere
I can't overstate the importance of social media in my life. I am isolated geographically, and by chronic ill-health. I have literally no IRL people that I haven't met through social media or otherwise online (I am living in a foreign country) and all my work barring what I'm doing at the moment has been through social media. All of this was built on Twitter, and a bit of LinkedIn.

Can someone give me a specific "here" for #whyareyouhere so that I can respond in an appropriate manner? @Posty?

But the pull factors are more interesting than the push factors.

After @ceejbot@twitter.com's talk about a federated alternative to npm, I was thinking about trying Masto again.

Now the more I learn about the fediverse in general, the more I'm encouraged to go all in.

I like the ethos and general mission of federation, and I think anything that begins to claw data back from the tech giants is going to be crucial, if we can encourage greater buy in

#WhyAreYouHere

#WhyAreYouHere (can't remember if this was @Tarale or @Posty's question first)

I tried mastodon.social a while back after getting sick of :birdsite: (I can't remember what pushed me at the time) but it didn't stick, I guess because it was a little too overwhelming.

The recent push to aus.social was kinda because of the @geordie thing, but also just because I'm generally tired of all the posturing the other place seems to encourage, including from myself, tbh.

#whyareyouhere

Let's try this again

I'm here looking for something different, something non commercial. A place where the quality of the connections you make is more important than the dollars they generate

I still use other social media as well. Mostly to stay connected with family and friends and stay up to date and involved in the debate

I hope it grows here

#WhyAreYouHere you know, on Mastodon?

I'm here to find more community, more friends. I want to find more artists, and also to share my own art. I want to chat with other parents of young children about... well, kids. And the challenges of raising them. I want to feel safe talking about things like being probably autistic. I want to spend less time marinating in the woe woe woe of the world, but I like that I can CW it if I do want to talk about those things.

ktxby brings up a very good point though. #WhyAreYouHere? Personally I'm here because it's where my friends are and it's friendlier space away from twitter and that has value to me.

Taryn said to me that she left because she doesn't want to join a community. which sounds weird to me? I don't understand why you wouldn't want to join a community.

I think maybe the answer for her is to maybe self host like she does her email.

Why was she here? to build her personal brand? who knows, she's left