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

I am also allergic to avocado! Solidarity and my sympathies!

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.

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

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

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.

So now that we have Posts, how has it been impacting your Mastodon usage (if you’re on it)?

This avacadogate sounds like an episode of Silicon Valley or Black Mirror. Can’t tell yet 🧐

Yeah Ivory is really what got me to start engaging

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.

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

I think that’s due in part to early adopters (designers) and their networks, but not on purpose, or by design. I personally see value in read.cv for people other than designers. I hope that leads to a broader ‘posts’ adoptance.

Omgggg that looks goooood. I really miss having a good dosa in Amsterdam 😭

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

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 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.)

Ooooh! Will definitely check it out. This the the type of feed I live for nowadays haha

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

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

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.

Oh gosh for maybe two decades now? It’s rough, especially at sushi or Mexican restaurants. Most folks are nice but there’s always one server every so often that raises an eyebrow at me and I feel like I have to be like “I’m SO sorry - I’m really not a picky eater! I promise!”

I enjoy Posts to see others share what they’re up to outside of design. If you find yourself in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, find the the Brooklyn Curry Project—wife & husband team serving the best masala dosas across from the park (be prepared to wait an hour in line on a Saturday)

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…

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

You’re a designer’s life savior though 😍 Everything you’ve been doing with Figma has changed a lot of people’s lives 😁

🤝 how long have you been allergic? I miss them so much 😭

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.

Here’s an honorary designer badge 🎖️😎

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.

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.

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

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

Wait what? Are New York avocados different somehow?