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Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by maelito »

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…

> this influencer with 40k followers will find that ~40 of his followers

Mastodon is way more active than what you pretend, at least in France. Some 40k influencers already have thousands of followers on mastodon.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by Tepix »

kmlx wrote: post #139
Tepix wrote: post #97

Is there a stable mature lightweight mastodon/PubSub server (ideally with sqlite storage) that's easy to maintain to serve a handful of users?

if there’s just a handful of users can’t you just share a note from the notes app, or is that too personal?

I don't see how a note from the notes app will serve as a maston server.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by zaik »

drdebug wrote: post #441
zaik wrote: post #14

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This was the event that pushed me to go XMPP only for messaging. Pulled in my family and some friends. Internet standards without vendor lock-in is now a requirement for me.

Can you recommend a good free open source android client that compares to signal or whatsapp in terms of functionality and ease of use?

I would recommend Conversations on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

maelito wrote: post #451
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…

> this influencer with 40k followers will find that ~40 of his followers Mastodon is way more active than what you pretend, at least in France. Some 40k influencers already have thousands of followers on mastodon.

As someone who has maintained a personal mastodon instance since ~2017, I'm quite sceptical of your hopes that this sudden influx of users will remain active.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by tchaffee »

origin_path wrote: post #449
tchaffee wrote: post #426

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> Why not go to their website and take a look? Sure. Given links I'll do that. I just did right now since you are the first person to actually provide links. The claim was: > literal hours of continuous footage None of the links you provided come even close to that claim. They are FULL of cuts. Many of them don't even include the question that was asked! And even you took quotes out of context. The quote "Twitter doe…

"You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are" You want people to transcribe every word for you now? I already did the web searches and wrote out snippets for you, so the topic of each video was clear. You could have done those things yourself which is why I'm the first to dish it up; it seems uncharitable to get mad about it and now…

No such video exists. Got it now.

All that you've got is a quotes taken out of context that distort the original meaning. Ignorable.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by amatecha »

sshine wrote: post #170
amatecha wrote: post #102

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I mean, what instance did you register on? Because I've been using it for a couple years and uhh, the toxicity is nearly non-existent for me. I see some stupid crap once in a while in a response to some highly-followed user, but then I just mute the person's entire instance (if I find that similarly-toxic crap is a common sort of output from there). Simultaneously, I've had more meaningful communication on Mastodon i…

> or maybe tweet at some brand whose service has made my day crappier It's like something must stink before it goes on Twitter.

Twitter is usually the only reliable, direct way to ask a question of a faceless corporation because they happen to prioritize actually answering tweets. I don't know why, but it's become the only way I ask questions of some service that has millions of users, because I don't feel like signing up an account on a service portal or filing a ticket with a convoluted customer support system. Or even worse, "chatting" with a bot that will just funnel me to poorly-written FAQs that don't even remotely help me with the problem I'm encountering.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by origin_path »

tchaffee wrote: post #455
origin_path wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are" You want people to transcribe every word for you now? I already did the web searches and wrote out snippets for you, so the topic of each video was clear. You could have done those things yourself which is why I'm the first to dish it up; it seems uncharitable to get mad about it and now…

No such video exists. Got it now. All that you've got is a quotes taken out of context that distort the original meaning. Ignorable.

Nope, the videos are real and the things the employees say on them, equally so. Not distorted or taken out of context - on video, talking about their work in the clearest possible terms. It's a far higher calibre of evidence than a typical newspaper investigation, in which you'd get at best only quotes written down without even video evidence to back it up.

But if you'd rather be in denial about the nature of Twitter as an organization, go ahead and ignore all that. Your questions have been answered.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by tchaffee »

origin_path wrote: post #457
tchaffee wrote: post #455

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No such video exists. Got it now. All that you've got is a quotes taken out of context that distort the original meaning. Ignorable.

Nope, the videos are real and the things the employees say on them, equally so. Not distorted or taken out of context - on video, talking about their work in the clearest possible terms. It's a far higher calibre of evidence than a typical newspaper investigation, in which you'd get at best only quotes written down without even video evidence to back it up. But if you'd rather be in denial about the nature of Twitter…

The claim:

> literal hours of continuous footage

You gave links to highly edited videos. That is a fail.

> If you would rather be in denial about the nature of Twitter

I almost never use Twitter so I don't care. If you're naive enough to believe highly edited video from a source with a strong history of deceptively editing videos, [1], that's certainly your choice. But don't be so shocked that others are not as gullible and have a higher standard of evidence than you.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/10/18/project-veritas-elect...

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

origin_path wrote: post #414
tchaffee wrote: post #351

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> literal hours of continuous footage Where? Can you provide a source?

The source is Project Veritas. Why not go to their website and take a look? There have been a whole bunch of cases where they got Twitter staff on record to say damning things. And no, it's not out of context. The statements are in context and speak for themselves. You can watch the videos or listen to the recordings to hear it for yourself. If you want to argue this source isn't valid, you need to prove it, because…

> The source is Project Veritas.

Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group ... produces deceptively edited videos ... and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

That's a hard fail right there - from a gullible disinfo peddler. No critical thinking skills.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by tsimionescu »

kcplate wrote: post #437
tsimionescu wrote: post #430

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Let's make this simple. Old blue checkmark: Twitter confirms that this person is who they claim to be. If an account is called DonaldTrump and has a blue checkmark, Twitter confirms it is the account of the former president. New blue checkmark: Twitter confirms that someone pays 8 dollars every month. If an account is called DonaldTrump and has a blue checkmark, Twitter confirms that someone is paying 8 dollars every…

> So, if you see a tweet from the blue checkmark @DonaldTrump saying "I am running for president", with the new system, you have no idea if the former president has publicly announced he is running again, or if some rando who had 8 dollars to spare wants to make it seem so. Good! I can’t think of a better way to make Twitter better for the world than to eliminate the elitism.

What's elitist about confirming the identity of who is speaking?
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