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It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by luckylion »

bitwize wrote: post #117
tga wrote: post #49

> 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.

Twitter used to be run by progressives, so there was a modicum of "we are, or should be, doing good things here". Elon Musk bought Twitter specifically to hollow out its progressive cultural core.

"I was happy to do free work for that billionaire, he's part of the same ideology I've been born into. But now that it's this other billionaire, I cannot continue."

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Post by audessuscest »

OscarCunningham wrote: post #24
FortiDude wrote: post #9

It 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.

same for Twitter...

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

buckaroot wrote: post #94

If Twitter and Mastodon were taken permanently offline tomorrow, would this be of any significant loss to the world? When I see people like the author getting so publicly and verbosely upset about a social media website, I wonder about their perspective. There are surely much more important things going on than preening to the crowds.

There are more important things happening on twitter than preening to the crowds. It's easy to dismiss if you don't find utility in it yourself, of course, but many people clearly find it very useful. Twitter is a very simple tool - it's what you make of it. That can be preening or organising revolutions or anything in between.

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Post by Thlom »

croes wrote: post #45
tomcam wrote: post #26

The 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…

>But one thing he obviously does frequently is fix broken shit, then try again if that fails. This works in small starting companies not in a Behemoth like Twitter. And I doubt he fixed so much. The traffic problems he claimed to fix with the Boring Company are nowhere near fixed, same with FSD.

From an engineering standpoint traffic is really easy to fix. Just build more roads with as much “flow” as possible (tunnels). But it doesn’t work because traffic is a human problem, not a technical problem.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by DanHulton »

luckylion wrote: post #121
bitwize wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter used to be run by progressives, so there was a modicum of "we are, or should be, doing good things here". Elon Musk bought Twitter specifically to hollow out its progressive cultural core.

"I was happy to do free work for that billionaire, he's part of the same ideology I've been born into. But now that it's this other billionaire, I cannot continue."

That is absolutely not what they said, and you are being disingenuous by pretending that it is.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by audessuscest »

FortiDude wrote: post #77
croes wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That's exactly right, to a point that decentralize app like Mastodon would be valid alternatives when everyone run its own instance (and is able to secure it), of course that's in theory already possible, but in practice it's difficult.
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