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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by kukx »

wraptile wrote: post #311
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.

I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.

I would rephrase it to "political propaganda machine dislikes and distrusts Musk". It is telling that Tesla was not invited to the EV summit or that or was removed from S&P 500 ESG.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by MrDresden »

rjzzleep wrote: post #300
starefossen wrote: post #296

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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...

Some of us have already left the Meta ecosystem years ago after finally waking up to that.

Now it is time to do the same for Twitter.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by bigfudge »

hedora wrote: post #208
cgh wrote: post #151

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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.

Peer reviewed work has a much higher bar for people to say stuff. If you want to know what academics think, as opposed to what they are motivated to write and get past a reviewer, you need something like twitter. Plus, some academics are interesting people and say stuff of interest away from the specialism.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by shapefrog »

kukx wrote: post #321
wraptile wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.

I would rephrase it to "political propaganda machine dislikes and distrusts Musk". It is telling that Tesla was not invited to the EV summit or that or was removed from S&P 500 ESG.

Yet the other political propaganda machine love and trusts Musk

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by jeena »

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?

As an example https://aaronparecki.com/ does it, but when it comes to documentation entry page https://activitypub.rocks/ and otherwise https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by raspberry1337 »

concordDance wrote: post #318
awestroke wrote: post #316

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I think that's a vocal minority. The majority doesn't care, and two equally small, vocal minority groups love and hate him, respectively

In hackernews and reddit and my small RL sampling the haters outnumber the lovers about 3 to 1 atm. And about 1 in 4 or so care.

I'd like to see a poll on hacker news for this

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by dairylee »

kramerger wrote: post #320

I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?

> all the politics was getting annoying

Dumb question but why would this be any different on Mastodon?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by shapefrog »

onethought wrote: post #309
starefossen wrote: post #296

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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.

But all the social networks are owned by a few individuals. Even twitter before musk bought it was owned by a select few (with real control), and they already dictated the rules based on their own likes/dislikes... that's what started this whole thing in the first place.

> Even twitter before musk bought it was owned by a select few

Except it wasnt

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by shapefrog »

rogerb wrote: post #298

:( Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 366 of 366 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twitodon.

Given that there are (rounded to the nearest meaningful number) 0 users on Mastodon at the moment the scan is not going to take very long to find 0!

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by raspberry1337 »

kramerger wrote: post #317
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #312

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Yeah, it is not about a whole social network being controlled by a single person. It is about a whole social network being controlled by a single person you disagree with .

You don't have to disagree with Elon as a person or politically to feel that an open speech platform controlled by one person who is known to micromanage everyone around him is bad. The tweets about Pelosi should that he is absolutely open to using his power as a prominent figure to control the narrative long outside his area of expertise

We need to reduce harmful information. Only experts on A may speak about it. Experts are decided by trustable media outlets.
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