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# Mastodon and Twitter... wow!
So I was aware of the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) quite some time ago.
[Mastodon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)) is one of the microblogging social networking services
that is.. "apart?" of the fediverse.
[I joined mastodon](https://tech.lgbt/@senders) back in 2020 when I was looking into it more and it was blowing up again on sites like Reddit.
Turns out I didn't really gel with it - primarily I realized I don't really like social media.
## Twitter is on fire and I don't care
So I joined Twitter sometime around 2010 because people kept talking about it and I wanted to follow some friends.
This is pre-discord and post-skype sucking ass so my friends and I were in need of some way of sharing links and media online
because SMS and MMS still and did suck back then too (TBH its the exact same). We'd DM eachother links and stuff and it was fun for a while.
I did engage with the platform from a "I have thoughts that no one cares about, but at least I can tell Twitter" perspective. I didn't engage with it at all from:
I follow people and hashtags because I care about the discourse. This is also when I started getting more into Reddit - which was much more up my alley so it was moderated and
filtered for "higher tier content" (saying this now is like... hilarious - though as of Nov 2022, they're both just shitposts).
In November of 2022, Twitter began to implode under god-awful leadership. And frankly, I couldn't care less... sorta.
### The only good part about Twitter
Apparently, Twitter is useful for distributed organization - we've seen how it works during movements to get the word out and spread the message.
Most notably in Egypt during Arab Spring.
This can happen in Mastodon - but by its nature - Mastodon is a bit... gatekeepy. And being able to just go to Twitter.com and search #hastag is very useful for this aspect.
### But there is no other value, and that is like... not always a good thing
But that type of organization isn't always for _positive change_. I mean, look at JKR tweeting about trans folk and Trump.
## Mastodon
So I didn't want this to be some history lesson. It was mostly a post about - I started using Mastodon this morning again. I find it sits nicely in this niche of blogging
below things like Gemini or this blog - where someone would put _some effort_ into it. And mostly just get their quick thoughts out there.
And I think that is fun. I am now more engaged with online creators than I was back in 2010 so I would probably want to have some YouTubers and bands migrate over so I could keep up-to-date on stuff.
But I bet Instagram is going to win out for those - since they are already engaged on that platform.
### Why not Instagram
So I honestly believe if Twitter full shuts down (hard to believe but it COULD happen at this point - or at least get ditched enough for people to move on) it will be replaced by Instagram as the platform to engage with your favorite artists, creators, celebrities etc. It already is that - but its a different type of engagement. So I am curious how this transition will occur. I don't see enough general public moving to Mastodon - as the venn diagram of "how I engage with fans on this platform" is like 2/3s for Twitter instagram and there is like 1/3 that Twitter does that Instagram doesn't - and that's
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