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Twitter is dead dude. It is Friendster. It is MySpace. You just don't realise it yet. (Disclaimer I have a Twitter account that I use to post stuff)
i'm favoriting this so i can come back to it, like that dropbox comment.
It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
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#32It doesn't seem sensible to invest yourself so much into Mastodon without having thorougly explored it. I too was fascinated with the fediverse, until I used it for more than a month and realized the people posting there were just as toxic and annoying as Twitters, not to mention the plenty of instances where the petty owners have made everything even worse
Yeah but you don't have to follow them. I'm sure some terrible people use email, but email is still good.
Neither on Twitter? I enjoy Twitter, I’m highly selective and I don’t see politics at all
If someone moves to Mastodon because there are so much politics on Twitter then they are in for a surprise
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#33The same kind of posts happened when zuck changed the private policy of whatsaap a few months ago, everyone was migrating to Signal. Who uses signal now?
People I interact with did not claimed they will be moving to signal. The claims of leaving signal were comparatively quite rare actually.
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keep in mind author is Simon Willison, who cocreated Django and whose blog goes back to 2002.
I’ve made a living working with Django for the better part of the decade, and certainly know who Simon is, but still wouldn’t kid myself about this meaning anything.
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#35I think, they are happy will all the attention https://www.mastodon.com/
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#36The author quit Twitter primarily because the entire accessibility team was sacked. Understandable... if you know nothing about Elon Musk. I am not a fanboy in the least. But one thing he obviously does frequently is fix broken shit, then try again if that fails. He does these things in public and listens to feedback. He clearly keeps a sense of humor about things, which rattles a lot of people understandably. I know…
I think you might in fact be a fanboy. Which is fine, fanboy all you like if it makes you happy!
Maybe he does have people lined up to replace all the people he just fired. Maybe he really was able to ascertain who was essential and who was dead weight within days of taking over. Maybe against all appearances his actions are actually helping retain the best people at Twitter. Maybe having a public strop and suggesting he might publicly “shame” advertisers will have them falling over themselves to come back and spend their ad dollars with him. Maybe he really cares about “free speech” for speech that is not his own or that he disagrees with.
Maybe.
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#37I liked Mastodon when it first came out. But nowadays it’s seems to be more like a Left wing version of Gettr. Wouldn’t use either.
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#38The author quit Twitter primarily because the entire accessibility team was sacked. Understandable... if you know nothing about Elon Musk. I am not a fanboy in the least. But one thing he obviously does frequently is fix broken shit, then try again if that fails. He does these things in public and listens to feedback. He clearly keeps a sense of humor about things, which rattles a lot of people understandably. I know…
> To assume Elon has simply discarded the issue of accessibility altogether is to me the least likely assumption.
Yep indeed, it could be that Musk doesn't really know who does what at Twitter, nor which teams are effective or not. Maybe noone does. In that case the best path forward could well be to blow up everything, leaving only a skeleton crew to keep the lights on, then rebuild on top of the scorched earth.
In fact this approach might even attract some more hungry and gung ho warrior types who are attracted by musk's style, and could be better suited to bringing about his vision than the existing team.
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#39I think it'd be great for more decentralized platforms to supplant centralized ones, but they usually seem to struggle to acquire more mainstream users. Even if Twitter collapses under Musk's leadership, my hunch is that a (new?) centralized competitor is more likely to take most of their market share, rather than Mastodon. I know, I know, there's some obvious exceptions like email, or just the web in general, but it…
Even email is not really that decentralized - it's mostly Google + Microsoft.
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Yeah but you don't have to follow them. I'm sure some terrible people use email, but email is still good.
I also don't need to follow toxic people on Twitter, so I really don't know why I would use a badly programmed and infinitely smaller social network
To not support it's new owner