Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@CaptainRaj @Jehanne
Fediverse is the network of websites where if you have an account on one site, you can follow and talk to people on any of the other sites. So you're part of the #fediverse now, and you can talk to people on mastodon.social, follow folks from scicomm.xyz, etc. It's not just limited to #Mastodon either, you can also follow https://pixelfed.org/ accounts (where people post pictures, like Instagram), lemmy.ml accounts (reddit-like), etc.
Basically it's a lot of sites with different purposes, designs, goals, etc. that choose to be #open and ready to communicate with each other, instead of closing down everything like facebook or twitter.

@Shreya512
That's my favourite thing about learning about #ActuallyAutistic traits. It brings back all the little memories that taught me I was "weird" in some unaccountable way, and makes them make sense as part of a coherent whole. It also makes them feel less isolating, knowing that there were probably other kids going through similar things in Kochi and Pune and Osaka and Hamburg at the same time.

@Shreya512
One day when I was a kid, the icecream-walla was outside, and my sister asked me "what flavour of icecream do you like the most?"
The question didn't really make sense to me, so I asked her: "What does that mean?"
She just gave me a strange look, then went out to buy the icecream.
I clearly remember the feeling of being the odd one out, feeling left out and confused about this apparently very common and expected human experience of having a strong, fixed preference for one flavour of a thing over another.

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@aeronlaffere
I hope it remains at least somewhat like this.

Someone said "politicians and celebrities will never bother with this, it'll be only scientists and writers and folks like that move to fedi" - as if that was a diss. That sounds great to me!

Let the drama and gossip remain on the birdsite, and let the #Fediverse be the place for thoughtful and curious conversation.

@Khosro
Welcome! Dazed and confused is about right for your first day here, that was my experience too, years ago Take your time to look around and explore things, most stuff here isn't complicated, just different and new!

@subhodeep
But I think #Discord looks better visually to a newcomer, more whitespace, less intimidating. That's probably the most common complaint I hear about #Zulip, that it looks "cluttered" and "confusing". It's a small learning curve/time to get used to it, for so many benefits, but seems to be a roadblock for a lot of people.
That, and #Slack and Discord's marketing budgets!

@subhodeep
Zulip is great! The keyboard shortcuts especially make it a breeze to navigate through. Discord is such a PITA comparatively.

@RayScript
That's a pretty new thing (at least in my experience). Posts used to have pretty equal amounts of both (before the #twittermigration), but a few PSA posts have been floating around about how favourites do "nothing" and if you like a post you should boost it. So I guess that's becoming the new culture here, but I still prefer to fav for "thanks for posting this" and boost only if I think it's something that needs to be amplified.

@ceoln
That's true, and an interesting way to look at it. These tools take away the mundane part of struggling with pixels and lines or spelling and grammar, and allow you to express your creativity more directly. I like it!