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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by HellsMaddy »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #53

Another new tool in this vein is Fedifinder. It works by scanning Twitter bios of accounts you follow for strings that look like Mastodon addresses: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ 5 years ago there was a neat tool called Mastodon Bridge that did what Twitodon says it does but much better, I think because it didn't require everyone opt in. It stopped working because of some change Twitter made to their API terms of use…

Why does Moa need so many permissions? I don't want to give it +RW on both my accounts.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by krainboltgreene »

haunter wrote: post #220

Does Mastodon the software support ads? I always see the platform more akin to Reddit or Discord than Twitter tbh. Say I want to make an instance and want to host it. According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month. That’s a lot if you compare it to a reddit sub or Discord server which are free and where I’d say a similar sized sub/server are quite small (not all 2000 users…

No, the open source software Mastodon does not have any ad mechanism, but obviously you could change that.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by commandlinefan »

michaelwww wrote: post #9

I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.

I think it’s depressing that droves of people are leaving Twitter because they believe that they might tone down all the censorship.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by commandlinefan »

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,…

> Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative

If they do, Elon can buy Reddit for about $44.00.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by xyzzy123 »

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.

Without some way to capture value it would also be one of the biggest acts of capital destruction in recent tech history.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by mattacular »

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.

Why would he do that. What about anything he's ever done makes you think that is even a remote possibility

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by icy »

HellsMaddy wrote: post #221
NelsonMinar wrote: post #53

Another new tool in this vein is Fedifinder. It works by scanning Twitter bios of accounts you follow for strings that look like Mastodon addresses: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ 5 years ago there was a neat tool called Mastodon Bridge that did what Twitodon says it does but much better, I think because it didn't require everyone opt in. It stopped working because of some change Twitter made to their API terms of use…

Why does Moa need so many permissions? I don't want to give it +RW on both my accounts.

It’s a cross-poster. It quite literally needs +rw to post to both accounts.
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