Poll: What do you think about a Mastodon server for Castaneda?

First off, Mastodon is basically an (optionally) invite only decentralized implementation Twitter (so to speak) that is implemented with ActivityPub. I know there are some Mastodon communities for witches, but they are just for sexually confused, pre-teen girls who still read Harry Potter. Currently I’m not aware of any Mastodon servers for Castaneda or any for sorcery that I would recommend.

Why Mastodon, isn’t reddit good enough? It’s not a really mutually exclusive choice, both can obviously exist; I already know that there is a private sub for r/Castaneda now, but who really wants to read annoying ads? Personally I’ve been on reddit for a decade and it’s just a big ad farm now with high user churn; this sub is the only one left for me I contribute to that I really feel hasn’t soured yet. Let’s hope Netflix doesn’t make a movie or series about CC otherwise we’re screwed here—let’s be thankful that the academic community discredited CC before reddit existed. Mastodon isn’t perfect but I’ve seen a growing trend of many subs moving to Mastodon for good reason. A community can only get so large before it becomes political or a dumpster for memes.

I personally don’t use Mastodon much other than the indieweb community because, to my knowledge there really isn’t a great way to discover communities, which is both good and bad. I also don’t like Twitter but that’s not inherent in its sub/pub design, it’s because it evolved to be a place where users just make witty satirical posts or sly political commentary. I also don’t like “chat” platforms like discord for the same reason I left Facebook over a decade ago, which is they encourage nepotism and everything becomes a contest of whom can grab the most attention. I also dislike chat platforms or social networks because I think it’s folly to expose personal details that can be used to incriminate or victimize you later on when say for example you are apply for a job; CC certainly become more secretive later on in his life for good reason. I really am not a Mastodon fanboy either, I actually think that it’s still not a mature platform and many of the Mastodon clients can be confusing at times—but I prefer it to reddit (at least now) or other social media.

I’m just throwing this proposition out there for this community, the mods, and dan to see if anyone shares my sentiments. If there seems to be a consensus not necessarily to move to Mastodon but to have a server for those whom prefer the platform, then I can certainly help set it up for a rainy day so to speak. I actually think this sub could be a nice way to vet users for inviting to Mastodon because I certainly don’t think everyone is cut out to be a sorcerer like DJ always said, but at the same time we shouldn’t dismiss newcomers. Anyways that’s all I have to say for now—I in no way am expressing malaise about this awesome community nor hijack it—it’s just an off the cuff proposal at the moment.

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