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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by atoav »

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.

Depends which political propaganda machine you are talking about: the one that is outraged at their speakers husband being hit by a hammer or the one flately making stuff up to justify that attack.

P.S. I am not an US citizen so I couldn't care less, but when "my" party over here would defend a guy who breaks into someone's home and hit an old man with an hammer because of — you name it — political propaganda I would pause for a moment and revaluate whether I am still who I think I was.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by langsoul-com »

I wonder if there's something like Twitter but a feed (RSS or otherwise) of interesting people's blog, YouTube, podcast or creative work?

I feel the value of Twitter would be a feed of interesting people. But 280 characters is just knee jerk thoughts.

Something to easily discover people, like Twitter, whist showing their content, seems more valuable.

Right now, the discovery part sucks. It's possible to find interesting people and sub to the RSS, but not everyone has that (like my blog). Not to mention how spread out content is, someone might release a podcast, or interesting YouTube vid, instead of just blog articles. It's just too much work.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by nathias »

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.

If I could choulse twitter would be a protocol, but to me the worst case is being owned by an anonymous bureaucracy working exclusively to optimize the platform for add revenue, that changes the 'rules' on the fashions of US local politics. Anything else is an improvement.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by shapefrog »

yosito wrote: post #36

Someone should build an app like this that is integrated with all the social networks. Give it a sexy UI, and a catchy feature or two to keep people checking in. Eventually, it could serve as a federated contacts hub that links people between networks. A vital piece of infrastructure to support mandated interoperability.

I can see the headling now - Developer builds the ULTIMATE stalking tool

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by mikepurvis »

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.

In my friend group there were a handful of specific blunders that significantly changed the tide of opinion against him, all around the 2018 timeframe. "Pedo guy" was the biggest one mostly because of how stupid and unnecessary it was and his unwillingness to back down, but the "taking Tesla private for $420/share" drama was a close second.

The increasingly pubic tawdriness of his love life was a factor too; prior to then he'd done a good job cultivating an image of a family man.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by akho »

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.

Mastodon has moderation facilities and is famous for instances having CoCs, refusing federation with instances with conflicting views, &c.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by j3th9n »

raspberry1337 wrote: post #330
kramerger wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You seem a good example of a victim of propaganda.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by ikari_pl »

masukomi wrote: post #42

ugh. this has a killer flaw > Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 867 of 867 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twitodon. WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY LINKED ACCOUNTS... BY LOGGING IN TO TWITODON the odds of that having happened for any notable subset are so low as to make this useless.

I mean, that's something you can say about any tool or social network at its beginning. Imagine downdetector with 5 users being considered useless forever.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by colesantiago »

SantalBlush wrote: post #247
colesantiago wrote: post #93

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Doesn't matter when we are talking about Mastodon. People don't use email as social network or instant form of social communication.

I may be mistaken, but it looks like you brought up email in the first place. >Centralisation is more convenient in almost ALL cases, even in email (nobody except people on HN host their own email)

Okay? My point still stands and users don't want to host their own email or Mastodon instance and prefer centralised solutions when it comes to a social networking.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by throwaway744678 »

j3th9n wrote: post #347
raspberry1337 wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You seem a good example of a victim of propaganda.

I may be mistaken, but I read the comments you're replying to as a sarcastic one.
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