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Yeah, let's repeat twitter, but with an even less controlled messaging system. That'll go well.
Yeah, let's repeat twitter, but with an even less controlled messaging system. That'll go well.
Clearly troll bait, but I just wanna say that no one is repeating twitter. This is decentralized. Even if corporations move in and create their own instances it will still remain decentralized. Even if it splinters into pockets of federation, it will still be more of a public domain than twitter ever was, being owned by one corporation.
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Clearly troll bait, but I just wanna say that no one is repeating twitter. This is decentralized. Even if corporations move in and create their own instances it will still remain decentralized. Even if it splinters into pockets of federation, it will still be more of a public domain than twitter ever was, being owned by one corporation.
With all the dangers of disinformation and "echo chambers", but a bit bigger. And what for? So more people can feel they have followers and spend time cultivating that?
If you see disinformation and find yourself in an echo chamber on a platform where you can chose who you see and engage with, I am afraid it's not the platform's fault.
Mastodon View Profile: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-r...
Basically you click to view someone's profile, then click this extension's button in your toolbar and it will take you to YOUR instance, where you can follow that person with just one click (no copy+paste+search)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly troll bait, but I just wanna say that no one is repeating twitter. This is decentralized. Even if corporations move in and create their own instances it will still remain decentralized. Even if it splinters into pockets of federation, it will still be more of a public domain than twitter ever was, being owned by one corporation.
With all the dangers of disinformation and "echo chambers", but a bit bigger. And what for? So more people can feel they have followers and spend time cultivating that?
I never understood it myself, was never active on anything but IRC. But ActivityPub seems truly magic when it comes to promoting communication across boundaries such as corporations and software stacks, so I jumped on it back in 2017 and loved seeing it blow up in 2022.
There are clearly a lot of very nice, and very normal, people on there who just love the concept of microblogging. Who am I, or you, to stand in their way? And why should they depend on one corporation to communicate when they can take it into their own hands?
It's really a very natural progression, just like we have many ISPs, phone companies, or anything else in society.
Kind of reminds me of the early days of the web, you have a feeling there's good websites out there, but there's no established mechanism to find them.
Yeah, let's repeat twitter, but with an even less controlled messaging system. That'll go well.
Another possibility is it'll work out great.
Just wanted to share a tool (Chrome extension), that has made following people on Mastodon much easier. Mastodon View Profile: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-r... Basically you click to view someone's profile, then click this extension's button in your toolbar and it will take you to YOUR instance, where you can follow that person with just one click (no copy+paste+search)
It will work in many cases, but it will also fail in other cases. It's not universal.
The only reliable method is to use the search field on your instance, or to directly query the Mastodon API.