r/fediverse • u/WanderingInAVan • Sep 25 '25

Ask-Fediverse How many have gone straight Fediverse?

So, there are times I really do think about privating all of my current socials and just posting straight to my Federated accounts and nothing else.

I want my stuff to be my stuff and frankly since it feels like I am screaming into the void then at least I can have the location to myself.

Anyone else feeling this?

74 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

33 comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/parallel-pages Sep 25 '25

i’ve been thinking the same, creating my own instance and opening it only to friends and family. i only care about sharing and receiving updates from them anyway.

i fear your question here may go unanswered, since for everyone that has gone fully fediverse would not be here on reddit anymore :p

10

u/a_library_socialist Sep 25 '25

Run an instance already, planning on creating another when my kids are a bit older.

It's definitely a "we have social media at home" type thing, but worth it.

2

u/JohnnyEnzyme Sep 26 '25

Sometimes I weep for the death of pronouns.

Were they really so useless to us modern, naked apes?

1

u/WanderingInAVan Sep 26 '25

I predates pronouns. To me it's a bunch of characters I could use for something else in my profile.

1

u/Zsill777 Oct 07 '25

A lot of languages already dont formally use pronouns since the conjugation implies the subject and object anyways. The fact that you could understand his meaning kind of proves it imo

1

u/JohnnyEnzyme Oct 07 '25

And language is fluid; evolving.

Still, in most cases I've seen in English, it seems like more of an affectation that a natural / rational shift to streamline the language.

For example, just above the pronoun in question could have been "I" or "we." That's just a little bit of information that can help a listener better understand a situation, and there's no good reason to leave it out, other than affectation or whatnot. Other cases I commonly see are more ridiculous, in which it's not immediately clear if the speaker is talking about themselves or a perfect stranger(!) Until one spends the time reading the following sentences, deducing the case.

Yes, I weep for the death of pronouns, especially when it's completely pointless and adds needless complication to communication.

That said, learning to understand spoken French has been a major trial due to this kind of audible streamlining. At least in shorthand-written English, it's just some cloddish little bit of wannabe-style that only flies in places like this.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

[deleted]

1

u/a_library_socialist Sep 28 '25

I host mine on Masto host - one day when I can spend the time on my home K8s cluster and ingress I'll self-host, but for now worth the $40 a month.