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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by wrycoder »

kache_ wrote: post #181
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.

Even protected accounts?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by zaik »

EnKopVand wrote: post #134
twblalock wrote: post #13

Doesn't this prove the value to users of a centralized platform over a federated platform? The centralized platform made it very easy to find people. Now people who are moving to a federated platform miss the value of centralization, so they are writing a tool that will leverage that value and import it into the federated platform. Maybe if Mastodon was a centralized Twitter-style platform it would be more usable, an…

I think it has more to do with the way Mastodon decentralised and I imagine the people who figure out to do e-mail as a platform first, will be the next twitter. The big issue with Mastodon is that your "twitter handle" depends on the server you join, which makes it hard to find you. If it was just your e-mail address, however, then everyone would be able to find you, and keep finding you even if you decided to chang…

Ironically, Mastodon addresses work just like email addresses.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by shagie »

In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..."

Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastodon.org - find a server... and I see a list of foreign language, LGBT+, activism, technology, and furry. Looking at the technology ones... they seem to be aligned with the foreign language, LGBT+, and activism themes.

The ones that look slightly interesting / "I just want generic news" have a waitlist.

I scroll down this post and see mastodon.social being mentioned... I try that, and it is closed to new sign ups. indieweb.social has a wait list... I look at what its feed looks like... https://indieweb.social/public and its linked in posts (that I avoid going to linked in to see).

In the category of "low friction, something to say 'here is where I chat'", mastodon is rather high friction and at this time looks to be more self promotion than topics of conversation.

I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on, but for someone who isn't active on twitter in the first place, mastodon looks to be decidedly worse in terms of signing up and the content.

I do acknowledge that this may be just my "spend a few minutes looking at it" but for the casual reader, this doesn't appear to be something I'll be sinking any time into and will more likely shrug my shoulders if twitter falls into disrepair rather than seeking out a replacement for it.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

augustuspolius wrote: post #121
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are migration tools to move your followers and your followings between nodes. But no way to move your posts. And so, yes, your identity partially/kind-of doesn't move. But mostly sort of does? At first this bugged me, but then it was pointed out that if you could just move your posts you could also potentially violate the moderation rules of the host you were moving to. So it makes some sense.

Thanks. I am more worried about the identity than the posts. If my identity belongs to the host, then in that sense this is no better than a centralized Twitter. Just theoretically speaking (I have not been banned from anything ever), if a mastodon.art user is banned from mastodon.art - everyone who followed them will have to find them on another instance and subscribe again? If exporting data is a process that depen…

The migration tool automatically moves your followers. It's a bit janky, it took an hour or two for it do its thing for me (there must be some batch component, I dunno). I don't know how it works between banned instances, or what your options are for when a server goes down fully.

But all the of the follower/following data is available via CSV export any time, too. And there's obviously an open API as well.

And honestly, you could also just run your own server if you're that concerned.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by hedora »

qwertox wrote: post #189

If Elon would migrate Twitter onto Mastodon, with the post history and all, now that would be a change for the history books. It would change social networks forever.

Ars Technica ran a "how to download your twitter account" article on Friday. Surely, there is a way to upload it you your own mastodon instance, right?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by kupopuffs »

collegeburner wrote: post #183
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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This post reeks of deeply rooted, unfounded assumptions and biases.

You're saying janitors/unemployed peoples are a demographic? Come now. Anyone can be unemployed or a janitor.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

robswc wrote: post #166
jdeibele wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology. Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost. It's really too bad that the idea of where you connect became conflated with what your name…

stupid question but I guess having a central ID would go against the whole idea of Mastodon? I like the idea of "self hosted discord servers" but it seems weird to have a different identity for each "server" at that point. Is there any difference between Mastodon and forums at that point? Consistent UX?

Consistent UX I guess is part of it (tho not necessarily), but I think the bigger thing is that they're all federated by protocol, so activity from one is viewable by the others (assuming they're federated) it's a bit like FidoNet or even UUCP of old.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by edgyquant »

shagie wrote: post #193

In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..." Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastodon.org - find a server... and I see a list of foreign language, LGBT+, activism, technology, and furry. Looking at the technology ones... they seem to be aligned with the foreign language, LGBT+, and activism themes. The ones that look slightly interesting / "I j…

Almost like people with the will and knowledge to build distributed platforms like mastadon are out of touch with the average user of modern social media.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by supportlocal4h »

colesantiago wrote: post #90
shafyy wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Decentralization doesn't mean hosting your own instance. It's about open protocols. There are hundreds or thousands of email providers that you can use and still send an email to a Gmail user without hosting your own instance.

Yet gmail is the biggest and email isn't a social network, choice is the problem. People cannot find their friends on Mastodon because: + They can't search all instances across Mastodon. + There is almost little to no one on Mastodon to talk to. So they just go back to a centralised service like Twitter and they definitely not use email as a social network.

What kind of friend do you have that you can't just say, "Hey, what's your handle?"?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by [deleted] »

shagie wrote: post #193

In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..." Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastodon.org - find a server... and I see a list of foreign language, LGBT+, activism, technology, and furry. Looking at the technology ones... they seem to be aligned with the foreign language, LGBT+, and activism themes. The ones that look slightly interesting / "I j…

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