No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
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Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
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That's it.
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Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
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Stephen fry is an absolute legend. Do you mind explaining mastodon for me? I never understood twitter so it could be a big ask.
Yeah, I'm definitely the wrong person to ask about Mastodon. I have an account and I scroll through some posts every few weeks or so if I'm bored. I don't really use it.
google: "celebrities on mastodon"
Seems there are not that much celebrities around, and Stephen Fry's last post there is from early September. Idk. I guess celebrities post things on platforms like Twitter but don't exactly spend their time on link aggregators / discussion platforms like Lemmy. I've seen a few on Reddit. But even on the bigger AMAs they often had a seperate account or someone do it for them. But there are a few on Reddit. And we here on Lemmy only have like 40.000 active users. So judging by the statistics I wouldn't expect many celebs here.
Twitter (old school, original version)
Well, it is restricted to short messages. They are long enough to post a hot take on a subject but short enough that it is impossible to actually give a reasoned answer to something.
It makes it the perfect one liner and outrage machine service. Whether that was by accident or by design is up for the reader to decide.
I do love a hot take, I think I got that from blindboy though. His hot takes are chefs kiss
What I never understood about twitter was actually seeing what people say. Unless I follow them I don't see their messages and I don't know who to follow for the most active and enjoyable content, that was my main issue for twitter.
I have never found twitter enjoyable. Never had an account and found following a thread there way too much work for what you get back.
Been using Mastodon a while. Once you hit critical mass of people you follow you just sort of find new ones.
If someone you enjoy reading boosts something someone else has said you go off and probably end up following them too.
With Mastodon you have to be a bit more pro active about building (and pruning) your social network but I've found it worthwhile.