Posts is a much narrower community, so hasn’t affected it. It’s nice because a lot of my industry friends are here, but I have no desire to talk about or be around designers 100% of the time and that’s my main worry going forward. Without other viewpoints, things stale quickly.

Totally here this. I can see my industry friends *attempting* to talk about other stuff 😅 but a lot of the topics are design-adjacent. So I’ll likely continue to explore Mastodon. That said, it’s refreshing how simple, lightweight, and respectful things have been on here.

I like both, but somehow I don’t feel feel 100% comfortable on either. I feel like mastodon tries really hard to be a good place but to me it sometimes feels self righteous. Posts, meanwhile, feels familiar because of the design community but I’m not a designer…

I just want a place for me to be able to post dumb stuff tbh

Let’s post dumb stuff together! I’ll start. I’ve sadly been allergic to avocado since 2020. Still, I couldn’t pass up this tree ornament

oh no an avocado allergy sucks, do you know what started it? i knew someone in college with a tomato allergy (= no ketchup, pizza, etc) and i think i’d die

Started a month after I moved to NYC :( Sep 2020

My condolences, I developed an avocado allergy after I moved to NYC too (but it went away when I moved to California 🤷‍♀️)

Wait what? Are New York avocados different somehow?

Haha pretty sure they were all either California or Mexico grown, I could never figure it out

What??? I’m really starting to wonder about this NYC thing. I ate avocados for nearly a decade in California just fine. Then NYC tried to kill me.

I haven’t been too active on mastodon but feel like I can be more active here. Just because experience wise it’s been feeling lighter and more stable

I agree, I think it also feels a lot less intimidating which helps in starting and making conversation.

Agree with both of you. I also like how they hide follower count. More about engaging with others than building status.

To add, I felt like Mastodon feels a lot better when you get off the big servers (I self-host) and use something like Elk and Ice Cubes or Ivory. The main apps suck and big servers are unpredictable with load

Yeah Ivory is really what got me to start engaging

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Why?

I struggled with Mastodon, found it really hard to connect and find people. And on Twitter there’s too much going on (feed wise) and I get overwhelmed. I’m loving Posts, I’ve had more interactions here and connected with more people than I ever did on Twitter.

Yeah I feel that. Twitter is like Time Square now. So many people, so many ads.

I’m already engaging more here. On mastodon I continually get Contrarian FOSS “Well Actually” Guys who seem to scour public feeds with shit to argue about uninvited, topics be damned. Today it was some dick who wanted to tell me why I should use git for music version control.

lmao he told you to do _what_

I had posted sadness about Splice ending its project collaboration platform, which I use with my friend. Some dude who doesn’t follow me found it and responded that “finally” musicians can catch up to software engineers and “realize” they should use git. (Which is 100% stupid.)

Hasn’t impacted it one but tbh

For now I really like that Posts is mostly designers. It feels like most of classic Design Twitter is here. I missed having a singular platform where all my peeps hang out.

I’m a big fan of Posts and prefer it over Mastodon. There’s just something about it that hasn’t stuck for me. Pretty much hopped off altogether for the moment.