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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by dimitrios1 »

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…

> I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on

Is there?

I guess it kind of depends on what bubble you are in.

I try to get myself into a wide range. Seems like where they are losing some, they are picking up some, and people who have come to depend on it (journos, researchers, political heads) aren't going anywhere.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

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…

I don't really get your linkedin reference. I'm on indieweb and that's not my experience of the place.

FWIW I moved from mastodon.social to indieweb, just put myself on the signup list and was on in a few hours. It didn't take long.

And you could have just joined mastodon.social if you wanted the low friction quick signup.

Though it is apparently under heavy load right now due to twitter exodus.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by hedora »

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.

Twitter just handed that and more to a plutocrat.

I'm not seeing why anyone should assume an internet rando is less trustworthy.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by collegeburner »

kupopuffs wrote: post #196
collegeburner wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

sorry jannie is a derogatory term for a internet moderator who does it for free. nothing at all against actual janitors who have real jobs. sometimes i get too zoomer for hn.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

dimitrios1 wrote: post #201
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…

> I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on Is there? I guess it kind of depends on what bubble you are in. I try to get myself into a wide range. Seems like where they are losing some, they are picking up some, and people who have come to depend on it (journos, researchers, political heads) aren't going anywhere.

Mastodon has been averaging about 1000 new users an hour for the last 3 or 4 days. Compared to a few dozen a month ago.

It's not mainstream, and never will be, but it's in the process of becoming quite vibrant, TBH.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by hedora »

jeroenhd wrote: post #97
GeckoEidechse wrote: post #71

On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content? In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.…

There is a lot of Twitter content out there. Too much for a single instance to proxy. I believe there are projects to mirror specific Twitter accounts to a (personal) Mastodon server so you can switch apps without needing two apps. I'm not sure what the implication would be for privacy/data usage regulations if you open those messages to the public, though; blindly reposting everything may actually violate data priva…

None of this addresses the question:

Nitter exists and it is open source. Why not add a mastodon API to it?

The existence of such a thing in no way has anything to do with existing mastodon instances TOS / acceptable use relationship with twitter (if such a relationship even exists).0

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by davidw »

augustuspolius wrote: post #110
bkuehl wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can be a part of a large or small instance and your consumption/conversation is not limited to users on that instance. You can follow people from other instances as well as scroll through a timeline that is posts/toots from across the fediverse (not just your local instance)

Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure how account handling/ownership works.

This seems like a big weak point. I went to check it out just now and it's like "pick a server" and... I don't know, which one is best? Can I change later? Seems confusing, pass for now.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by hedora »

cgh wrote: post #151
linuxhansl wrote: post #75

Heresy: Why do we need a replacement for Twitter? There was a world and a life before Twitter, and there is one without Twitter as well. I deleted my Twitter account about a year ago and have not missed anything. People and topics I am interested in I can updated on by many different means.

I follow various scientists, authors and so forth and I like to read their thoughts or see their recommended reading. And as silly as it sounds, it's wild to see eg William Gibson and Gerry Conway, two guys responsible for some of my formative adolescent reading, interact with one another at random.

For academics, why not read peer reviewed work?

For authors, other communities exist as well.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by davidork »

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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Moderating content, while mundane is valid and valuable experience, not only in the technology aspects but in the human skills that you'd find in any sort of consumer relations focused career.

Hopefully people would choose wisely and at least try to have some feel of a community before deciding to take on moderation duties

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by InCityDreams »

collegeburner wrote: post #190
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…

The login/ create an account/ nsfw bs has increased dramatically over the lastfew days . Nsfw? It's a war channel im following....
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