It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon • Hacker News Board

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by low_tech_love » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:30 AM UTC

mechanical_bear wrote: post #122

The fake consternation and lament over Twitter has been tiring. Really, most of the world does not care.

Please don’t get me wrong; I also don’t care (never used Twitter) and this is an honest question. Why does it bother you that people are consternated? I mean, Twitter is one of the leading communication platforms internationally, and LOTS of people use it intensively both for business and personal stuff. I guess it’s understandable that it affects them deeply. It is at minimal weird that half the staff has been fired in less than a week. If you ask me it sounds much more like a hit job than an honest attempt to improve it.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by Kudos » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:31 AM UTC

FortiDude wrote: post #51

croes wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To not support it's new owner

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?

You say this like he's quietly minding his own business and some pesky journalists are revealing what a dickhead he is. That is not the case, he is outspokenly a dickhead. He wants to broadcast what a dickhead he is _so_ badly, that he bought the worlds foremost social network to control the medium.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by radu_floricica » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:31 AM UTC

inductive_magic wrote: post #27

radu_floricica wrote: post #22

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> HN-tyke Not sure if on purpose or just serendipitous misspell. I use whatsapp because my clients use whatsapp. Which means the team uses whatsapp. Friends are spread on several apps.

My bad, fixed. Have you tried a WhatsApp-bridge with element/matrix? You could use matrix internally while being available to clients via WA. I would strongly discourage any company to use meta-clients internally.

I'm having a bit of a... culture shock? Not sure how to call it. We're a small company from an eastern european country, building one product and trying to make it into the big world. We don't have the luxury of caring about if a messenger app is meta or not. Is it doing its job? yes. Is it encrypted? Sortof, but truth be told we'd use it anyways.

If we have extra time we spend it on checking backups, or improving performance, or researching new cool stuff we can add to our product. Which messenger app to use?! Yeah, definitely culture shock. Severe, too.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by luckylion » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:31 AM UTC

newswasboring wrote: post #136

luckylion wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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."

I don't see a problem with this, except being born into an ideology. Most people these days have chosen one and cultivated it according to their life. I think my ideology is good, if it wasn't I would change it to be the good version. So why would I not work with someone who shares mine? Billionaire or not.

You don't choose your ideology, it's assigned by the tooth fairy when you lose your first tooth.

Alternatively, it seems to have a significant genetic component, and most of the rest will depend on the environment you grow up in. Choice isn't part of it, you don't evaluate all the possibilities and then pick the best one, you think the one you're part of is the best one because it intuitively made sense to you. The rest is rationalization.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by rvz » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:31 AM UTC

silisili wrote: post #11

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> They exist and thrive only through validation from social media.

Exactly. They will announce that they are 'leaving' but don't have the guts to delete their Twitter accounts and their followers as they will continue to lurk and post links from Twitter on wherever they moved to.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by cloutchaser » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:32 AM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #176

I find this hilarious. We all understand that the core reason some people might want to hurt twitter is because it is no longer going to follow the moderation policy that they liked (namely, silencing people with different political opinions). Yet, people can't name this reason honestly, and invent some other thin weiled excuses like 'layoffs are baaaad and unethical'. Bold prediction: this influencer with 40k follow…

Neil young is back on Spotify. Nuff said.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by angrycontrarian » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:32 AM UTC

monstertank wrote: post #124

And I'm finally going to try Twitter!

Same, just signed up for a paid account today. Looks like the full $8 blue checkmark experience hasn't been released yet though.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by atoav » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:33 AM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #176

I find this hilarious. We all understand that the core reason some people might want to hurt twitter is because it is no longer going to follow the moderation policy that they liked (namely, silencing people with different political opinions). Yet, people can't name this reason honestly, and invent some other thin weiled excuses like 'layoffs are baaaad and unethical'. Bold prediction: this influencer with 40k follow…

For me it is much, much simpler. I invest a lot of my time in putting content and thoughts onto a platform.

If I doubt the future of a platform and already find the status quo questionable, I am just not as motivated to put in the time to do something on there.

I guess for many people twitter was a platform they wanted to get rid of for a while, this is just a trigger to convince the others as well.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:34 AM UTC

sshine wrote: post #160

DanHulton wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The point being made that Twitter was owned by rich people before Elon bought it.

Sure, but people aren't primarily complaining that musk is rich. That's a convenient 'bonus gripe' but the main issues are his political leanings and his apparent disregard for the company's workers.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by cokeandpepsi » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 9:34 AM UTC

low_tech_love wrote: post #146

Unfortunately I have to say that I’m too removed from this to care (I guess decisions like this happen invisibly in every company all the time). However, the true intentions about this acquisition do make me curious. Does he really think that patting the backs of a handful of conservative extremists will make Twitter better? (An already global leader in its segment?) can anyone give me a concrete analysis of the scen…

Who know's Musk is one of the wealthiest people on the planet who tends to take big gambles he uses twitter a lot and probably sees value though that

it's like the more modern version of buying a vanity newspaper and looks to be following the same pattern