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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by panic »

anigbrowl wrote: post #106

When are Mastodon stans going to figure out that the reason people like Twitter is that it's (nominally) flat and you can interact with anyone unless they've blocked you for some reason? It's easy to build silos, which is what most instances are. Mastodon just reinvented single sign-on. It's not a terrible thing to build, but whenever you make a product that's just imitating someone else (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mas…

The advantage of federation is that it will allow Mastodon to outlive Twitter.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by celdon25 »

malermeister wrote: post #271
celdon25 wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit's censorship is even worse than Twitter's, so I would expect Reddit to be next on the list of places to liberate on the Internet.

"Censorship" has always been a dog whistle for "not letting propaganda and incitement run rampant".

Comrade, don't forget about the satirical news by the Babylon Bee. They are a danger after all, because if a subject thinks you are funny, you cannot control them.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by collegeburner »

neetdeth wrote: post #260
collegeburner wrote: post #232

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how is he supposed to pay off a huge LBO by making it harder to monetize?

The iMessage model? Somehow make having a Twitter brand Twitter account into a status symbol. Turn the screws on monetization while giving the product away for free to VIPs. Banish the poors and undesirables to the fediverse, where they can green tweet as long as they like.

the imessage model works because its a "status symbol" that actually isn't: the majority of people in America have the blue bubble (and way more among demographics that care). this in turn enables building cool extra features because it's a "status symbol" but actually common enough for them to work, even though both parties have to have an iphone. this produces a network effect, almost like a social media platform..... oh wait

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by tkk23 »

rvz wrote: post #140
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #117

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> (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mastodon has 'toots' because the logo is an elephant!) It's a mastodon, not an elephant!!

Even worse when Mastodons are extinct creatures. Probably tells us about the platform itself being used by little to no one, other than just techies that won't admit that they still lurk on Twitter.

To add to that, toots sound like farts.

The different connotations for birds and mastodons suggest that the platforms will reach entirely different user groups. If Musk doesn't push video and other technologies then Twitter has already reached its full potential market share. This leaves many opportunities to Mastodon. If the social climate gets colder, mastodons are better equipped than most birds. In a world of gene technology, extinction is only temporary.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by starefossen »

Thorentis wrote: post #292

If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. There is an irony to Mastdon, a more open platform than Twitter, becoming more popular because people thought Musk would make Twitter... more open.

For me it is how one person can suddenly own an entire social network and dictate the rules as he likes or dislikes. Mastodon it self is more open, the server you choose to sign up to might have content policies in place.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by tkk23 »

greesil wrote: post #218

Fuck it, I'm going back to usenet.

@haunter wrote:

>According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month

How efficient is the usenet protocol? I would expect that it would require far less resources.

What's the technical reason for not using the usenet protocol for a federated social network?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by augustuspolius »

bpye wrote: post #280
jeena wrote: post #264

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Because you can move between different domains without losing your subscriptions and subscribers, there is no real need to use your custom domain. But because it's not possible to move your old content (I assume because moving files is difficult), I still am self-hosting so I can own my own content. Another way of doing it is if you're already posting your notes, pictures, etc. on your own website, you can make it Ac…

> Another way of doing it is if you're already posting your notes, pictures, etc. on your own website, you can make it ActivityPub aware and use your website instead of Mastodon. I quite like the sound of this, do you have any references you can suggest?

I found this announcement by write.as (check out the video): https://write.as/new/blog/federated

Seems like it's possible to implement just enough of ActivityPub functionality that Mastodon users will be able to follow you.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by rjzzleep »

starefossen wrote: post #296
Thorentis wrote: post #292

If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. There is an irony to Mastdon, a more open platform than Twitter, becoming more popular because people thought Musk would make Twitter... more open.

For me it is how one person can suddenly own an entire social network and dictate the rules as he likes or dislikes. Mastodon it self is more open, the server you choose to sign up to might have content policies in place.

Wait, that's literally Zuckerberg? How was it OK when a Saudi Prince bought into Twitter to make sure Saudi Arabia wouldn't be hit by an Arab Spring[1]?

I don't really like Musk, but is every conversation and topic these days just plain hysteria?

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2471759/arab-prince-bu...

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