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...
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 .
Why do you feel a need to defend political propaganda? Did you not just try to show that it is instrumental? If anything I guess you agree that there is this top down attack on Musk. Well, he became so influential that shady political interests are in play.
How do you imagine a "top down attack" on the richest man on earth?
If you are the richest man on earth and are attacked by political elites how would you defend yourself? Mind that they control, to some extent, media and institutions. There are things beyond money.
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 interest…
You may be interested in Fraidycat.
Per the description:
> Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki.
This doesn't solve the problem of discoverability, but it solves half of what you described.
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…
Is there a way to find the Mastodon instance you yourself signed up on? I am pretty sure I already made a Mastodon account, but not on mastodon.social and based on the list of instances, nothing rings a bell. :-/ Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive… Good tip in the comments though, thanks!
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.
No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
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.
This. Mastodon is a federation in name only. If the protocol is not the policy then you really don't have a federation at all, rhetoric notwithstanding. I note that this is not a problem particular to Mastodon/The Fediverse, though, as its the exact problem that led to people forking their own networks off of FidoNet.
But we all know this hypothetical isn't the case. Centralisation is more convenient in almost ALL cases, even in email (nobody except people on HN host their own email)
Email is decentralized. It's mature enough that there's a bunch of trusted providers out there and you can use it without caring about the technical details, it's basically a perfect example of a successful mature decentralized service.
Email isn't truly decentralized anymore. Think I'm kidding? OK, try this: Try sending something to Gmail. Roll 3d6 and consult the oracle bones to see whether or not it magically gets caught up in the spam filters for no discernable reason.
Seriously: Transforming spam filtering into a black box service has decommoditized email and everyone knows it.
No, it's still federated. But my account of alice@foo.com follows bob@bar.com Bob registers his new Twitter handle so I, Alice, can find it on the central service of Twitter. A mapping of users to users can be across any service, including centralized to centralized (ie Twitter to Facebook) or decentalized to decentralized (IE Diaspora to Mastadon). It is just saying this string registered somewhere else as that stri…
I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.
No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conservative," posts articles on Twitter calling for ending democracy. Margarita Simonyan, a chief spokesperson for an ultraconservative authoritarian regime that is currently engaged in one of the deadliest wars in modern history against a budding democracy, has an account with over half a million followers. You want pre-Hellenic conceptions of the world? You got it! So seriously, what specific conservative content does Twitter disallow?