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It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
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It is funny cause your comment makes you sound like the insufferable one. I bet more than anything if people shift to a new network that you'd be the one to eventually change and pretend like you always saw it coming.
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#73The 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 suggestin…
A most interesting comment. Lots of words, no falsifiable assertions. Just a steaming pile of innuendo.
Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
#74Mastodon may not have the better interface, or the better community, or it may not yet be the most intuitive to use.
But I want to invest my time to help Mastodon reach the critical mass it needs. I would love to have a social network not controlled by capitalistic needs, and let open source developers help evolve it.
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Yup, federation can only work if the parts actually connect to one another. Isn’t Trump’s TruthSocial build on some federated protocol too? But if you connected your node to it, everybody else would shun you.
If I recall correctly, it was initially built on a relicensed version of Mastodon, with federation disabled. No idea what's going on with it now, or if it was even legal to do so with Mastodon's AGPL license.
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#76The 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?
My only active chat in WhatsApp is the one with my father. Are HN-type folks seriously still using chat clients by meta? What?
> Are HN-type folks seriously still using chat clients by meta?
Yes, we do, because our friends and acquaintances are not HN users.
Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists. But what do you know about the owners of the Mastodon instance you registered your account with? Are they accountable? Are they sensible? Are they competent? Do they even have a real identity?
They are at least less powerful and resourceful and you can simply switch your instance or make your own. None of this is true for Twitter.
A Mastodon instance owner can read everything you've ever posted, log everything even if you deleted it, doxx your IP and your private messages, delete or modify everything about your account on a whim and block you even if you make an account elsewhere. Plus they can keep very quiet about it since they have zero accountability.
So yeah, you can go to another instance, but better keep some kind of backup because you could be gone without notice
Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
#78As someone who cares for a blind father, I can't stomach the decision to eliminate the accessibility team. I am myself moving to Mastodon. I was amazed in doing this that the UI/UX of Mastodon is much better than Twitter. I feel better.
there could be a number of reasons other than "Elon doesn't care about xyz"
other members of the dev team can/are already doing this
Maybe he plans to make it part of everyone's job
Maybe he has his own team to replace it
We have zero knowledge of what's going to happen so jumping ship without knowing the full picture seems haphazard to me.
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#79As someone who cares for a blind father, I can't stomach the decision to eliminate the accessibility team. I am myself moving to Mastodon. I was amazed in doing this that the UI/UX of Mastodon is much better than Twitter. I feel better.
One could argue the accessibility team wasn't doing a very good job if Mastodon have done it better without a dedicated team.
An application can and should have good accessibility by default without a dedicated team
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#80> I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s richest man pay the loans he took out So Twitter was “really good” (while it was helping the many rich shareholders of a random public company) but it’s suddenly “work” a couple of days after the owner changed? Nothing wrong for not using it because of ideological reasons, but the product’s accessibility (or anything else really) hasn’t changed yet.
There is a very strong signal being given right now about the trend Twitter will be on for a long time.