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Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Yes, let's all stay in the existing disinformation echo chambers. 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.
If you get cancer from smoking, it's not the tobacco's industry's fault. If you get shot in a classroom, it's not the gun seller's fault.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#43Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#44There's an Observable notebook on this topic too who-to-follow-on-mastodon https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/who-to-follow-on-mastod...
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#45Yeah, let's repeat twitter, but with an even less controlled messaging system. That'll go well.
People need to see this play out again in order to rule out the possibility that the problems Twitter had and caused were just due to that particular platform, in that particular scenario. If Mastodon (or any of the other alternatives) go down the same road, they'll begin to wonder if the cause may be something deeper. But, they won't arrive at that conclusion by abstraction, or else they would have already. Another…
I admire your positive attitude, but facebook nor snapchat nor tiktok have shown any other trend. "Social" media are social in name only.
> else they would have already.
Except it doesn't work that way. People are some mixture of dumb, greedy and vain.
> Another possibility is it'll work out great.
What would be the positive outcome? Preferably one that wasn't heralded 20 years ago and has not borne out.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
You have to take the good with the bad. People seem to like being social online. 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 the…
> 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?
Because many are not nice and the platforms clearly have been abused, drive division in society and are bad for mental health. That's why we can't have nice things.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#47For folks from India, these are some random India specific accounts which toot frequently:
@tendstofortytwo@tech.lgbt
@rashi@mas.to
@chenthil@mastodon.social
@sridala@mastodon.social
@anniezaidi@mastodon.social
@sharanyamanivannan@mastodon.social
@vaditi@india.goonj.xyz
@Calamur@mastodon.social
@nixxin@mstdn.social
@rahulbhatia@mastodon.social
@nilanjanaroy@mastodon.social
@hackiechan@mastodon.social
@nikita32@india.goonj.xyz
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, let's all stay in the existing disinformation echo chambers. 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.
If you get cancer from smoking, it's not the tobacco's industry's fault. If you get shot in a classroom, it's not the gun seller's fault.
...yes? that's the point.
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#49Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#50Has anyone written a Chrome extension yet to take the username/server combinations of the top posted names and make them easy to click links? Like I can't click:
"Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...") @rob_carlson@mastodon.world"