Is it really gonna turn into a hellscape just because people you disagree with will no longer be silenced?
The concern is not about disagreeable ideas, it's about abuse and threats. Not all censorship is de jure.
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#52Twitter will be all the better with people like that leaving honestly. You can't fathom a platform with people you disagree with not being silenced?
I very much want to be in discussions with people who disagree with me. That said I equally want those discussions to be had in good faith, without lies or conscious distortions. I’d like to be free of bots, or maybe better, to have bots labelled as such. The “marketplace of ideas” requires transparency and “perfect information” at least as much as does the economic marketplace after which it was named. If Tesla were…
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#53What is the point of Mastodon? (not a flame bait) It has a character limit, it has separated instances on which you really can't subscribe (at least I couldn't a few years back), and it is realtime feed. So who is the target audience really? Big influential public figures with millions followers? - not possible due to federation Small thematic communities or specific professionals, not popular with masses? - very pro…
It's decentralized twitter basically... There's more nuance but for now just consider it twitter for this examples sake.
So imagine everyone can host their own twitter server, each server connects to each other... Or inversely not connect to certain servers if they want.
Now instead of a single server being a catchall for everyone, you can have nuanced servers.. since you have both a local timeline and a federated "all servers" timeline as well as the timeline of people and hashtags you follow.
Let's focus on the local and federated timelines.
Let's say you're on a mastodon instance that's all about pokemon Minecraft, people on this server will probably share that same like.. so when you look at the local timeline you're seeing people only on your pokemon Minecraft server.
When you look at the federated timeline you're seeing EVERY other servers feed.
So instead of seeing mastodon as a replacement for twitter, ask yourself, what kind of community do you want to be a part of.... Then find that using the mastodon community finder, go sign up and post a introduction and you'll find new people on the local timeline.
Think of it kind of like forums, but twitter.
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#54I have jumped ship, but i haven't deleted my Twitter. For one good reason. I did that with my Tumblr and someone's taken the username and just posts porn.
I don't know if twitter allows for reising inactive account names... But i won't risk it.
Either way, twitter made me angry, where as mastodon doesn't.. pretty simple.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there ActivityPub federation yet?
Not yet but I am curious how that might work? I do want to build an api soon and planning to make some changes to the Posts, add rss, other stuff.
There might already be an ActivityPub library for whatever language you used.
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#56For all Norwegian users that want something better you there are two popular Norwegian servers @Oslo.town and @Snabelen.no.
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#57Giving away content to Elon Musk for free is not on my dance card. Downloaded my data on Wednesday and deleted the account Thursday. Now on Mastodon but still searching out servers.
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#58The easiest way to have a sense of the numbers of account deactivations by day on Twitter is to see how many followers Obama loses: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/barackobama
Most movement is happening in specific language and thematic communities, so a global average may tell little. https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/109275934357821538