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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by kache_ »

wrycoder wrote: post #103

You would want to think very carefully about giving Twitodon these rights to your Twitter account: Things this App can view... People who follow you and people who you follow. All the Tweets you can view, including Tweets from protected accounts. Any account you can view, including protected accounts.

How do you expect it to work without that data? :P

Also, I'm _pretty_ sure you can point the twitter API at any user you want to scan followers and following. I did it on some twitter accounts I'm interested in when I started out to find some accounts to follow.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by collegeburner »

davidork wrote: post #175

Embrace the fragmentation. The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances. Plenty of networking opportunities as well. There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances i…

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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by spartanatreyu »

twblalock wrote: post #15
Timja wrote: post #12

Twitter is the only platform I know where you can search for people who share your interests and then connect with them. The whole #buildinpublic community is just insanely great. Everybody is building something. Everybody is having similar issues to talk about. You can make so many great connections and help each other out. But I feel that with Twitter becoming a private company owned by a single controversial perso…

Wait and see what happens. The fundamental incentives for Twitter as a business have not changed. It is a free service that needs to convert user engagement into advertising dollars. Unless Twitter moves to a paid model, that will always be true no matter who owns it. And if Twitter fails, any potential replacement will need to deal with the same incentives and solve the same problems Twitter did.

> The fundamental incentives for Twitter as a business have not changed.

Have they not changed? This is a genuine question.

How much control does Elon actually have? Can he decide to take the company in a direction that don't match the business incentives?

Can he tell an employee: "Do this or your fired" because it may make him feel better? Or because he misunderstood the situation and couldn't be told otherwise until he sees the results? Or both?

Does he have certain responsibilities that he is supposed to honor? What happens if he doesn't?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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davidork wrote: post #175

Embrace the fragmentation. The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances. Plenty of networking opportunities as well. There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances i…

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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by notpushkin »

cpeterso wrote: post #43
yosito wrote: post #36

Someone should build an app like this that is integrated with all the social networks. Give it a sexy UI, and a catchy feature or two to keep people checking in. Eventually, it could serve as a federated contacts hub that links people between networks. A vital piece of infrastructure to support mandated interoperability.

Unfortunately, I’m sure this is probably against the ToS of every social media service, even those that might still provide a client API. :( Otherwise someone would have done this. OTOH, I think there are services that companies use to manage and post to all their social media accounts.

I'm oretty sure Twitter still allows this, but the API is crippled and this reflects the poor experience in custom clients. I used to use Twidere extensively, but it's been very limited for the last ~8 years or so.

You could make it use private APIs by copying OAuth client id|secret from an official application. This would enable some features (notifications and polls, and higher rate limits). Later Twitter fixed that and also sent a DMCA, so Twidere had to remove the code that worked with said APIs.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by ahallock »

fleddr wrote: post #141

Twitter's appeal is outrage and controversy. Their users are addicted to it, even if they don't care to admit it. That's why no significant migration to Mastodon will take place. Even if you do manage to lift and shift your bubble (you won't), you'll then find yourself in a calm and slow place where nothing happens. For a bubble to exist and thrive, it needs a common enemy. With the enemy removed, it collapses. Every…

Yes, it's all about the dopamine hit from getting engagement. I'm guilty of it--sitting there thinking of a sharp reply to get people riled up. You'd think positive engagement would give the biggest boost, but it's actually the more hateful, negative replies that are the most satisfying. It's so toxic.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by collegeburner »

martythemaniak wrote: post #35

You know, I think Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative. You can use your real name, or anonymous account. You go there to follow particular subreddits, but there no reason why I shouldn't also be able to follow people and see their non-topic (ie, not part of any subreddit) microblogs interweaved with posts from subreddits. They deal with spam and trolls reasonably well. They have all the pieces,…

cool idea except that would require using reddit. twitter is full of retards, but reddit is full of insufferable retards who think they're very intellectual and will let you know it. it's an entire site full of IFL Science type bozos.

also didn't reddit proudly make a blogpost earlier this year that they now censor more speech than the bird site and calling on it to do the same?

(oh and i've been linked normal, SFW stuff where reddit now tries to make me create an account to see it because it's "18+". no, i am not "becoming a redditor" especially not to view one link. if they kill old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com it will be literally unusable.)

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