RE: https://thecanadian.social/@mike/117611663024154970
Okay, and sorry, don’t meant to be inflammatory, but I’ve been thinking about this post for a couple of days.
Lord of the Rings was about how the big wide world comes to even the unsuspecting, sheltered, unprepared, unaware. It’s about how it’s all one world, how blue sky and Twitter and truth social and mastodon coexist, and influence each other. It’s about how the shire is not safe, not about how it is.
Largely, and not to give a hard time, this is my issue with #mastodon , too removed.
In better news I've finally figured out the perfect analogy for what the fediverse is in the larger social media verse.
We're the shire. We're in our nice little country village posting pictures of mushrooms, cats ,and trees. We also gossip about the people going on adventures outside the shire and complain about the evil places of the world over a pint of ale.
Bluesky is Gondor, X is Mordor and Truth Social is Barad-dûr.
Greetings fellow hobbits!
@classwario No argument, however I still do get my breaking news from the fediverse. But I have to follow over 3k people to do it. On the other sites the algorithm typically feeds your news and opinion from out side the borders. Here you have to do the heavy lifting of having no algorithm.