I already mentioned that I do use Mastadon. You’re preaching to the choir.

Yes, I do.

My national background and the current situation in my country makes Twitter an important source of information (I follow local news sites as well).

I used the gaming as an example as a more neutral topic of conversation.

I see where you are coming from (even if you are being a bit glib), but the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow.

And trust me, my hate for Musk is way more than you can imagine. This is serious stuff.

I actually did try that twice (in a context where they would have more motivation than a typical dev/studio), no luck.

Don’t get me wrong, I do think we have to move of corporate social networking systems. I started actively using Lemmy about two months ago and I am enjoying it. However, we do have to be realistic about the state of the market.

For certain content there really is no alternative. One example would be gaming, almost no studios/developers are on Mastadon.

I do have a gaming-focused Mastadon account and I do use it, but it’s not really comparable.

I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn’t set up a reverse proxy with nginx.

I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn’t get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn’t clear where to ask for help.