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Handling it less like email and more like a “well if it blows up ah well” is part of the featureset in my opinion.
Social accounts are monetizable & part of peoples brands now - “well if it blows up ah well” might be fine for you or for me, but might not be for others.
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What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?
Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/
Is there any space nowadays for tech that is essentially free of politicized rhetoric? I really don't care about democracy or decentralization on my social media platform. When I first discovered Tumblr, MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, AIM, and Twitter I didn't care about any of their techno-political underpinnings.
I really want to like Mastodon, and every few years I make an attempt to join. But then, I am faced with the decision of choosing a server - if I like cooking and golf, do I join the cooking server or the golf server? What if I choose wrong ? - and the choice overload makes me just give up. And even if I really joined, then apparently my server's administrator would be able to silently prevent me from seeing other "e…
Just wait until the journalists find out Trumps Truth Social is the biggest Mastodon server out there.
Predictions: Mastodon becomes platform for technically minded center left. Tribel Social becomes lower brow left version of Parler. Twitter loses customers to aforementioned platforms but survives.
I really want to like Mastodon, and every few years I make an attempt to join. But then, I am faced with the decision of choosing a server - if I like cooking and golf, do I join the cooking server or the golf server? What if I choose wrong ? - and the choice overload makes me just give up. And even if I really joined, then apparently my server's administrator would be able to silently prevent me from seeing other "e…
Two big, vanilla instances are https://mastodon.social and https://mas.to . Unfortunately they've both been struggling to keep up with demand lately. If you're paralyzed by choice, I'd say just go for one of those if / when they're accepting new users. I think Mastodon would get more signups if interested people were just pointed at like ten working, non-specialized, non-tiny instances, rather than being confronted w…
As it stands right now, I am struggling to join because every mastodon instance I've checked is struggling with scaling.
I really want to like Mastodon, and every few years I make an attempt to join. But then, I am faced with the decision of choosing a server - if I like cooking and golf, do I join the cooking server or the golf server? What if I choose wrong ? - and the choice overload makes me just give up. And even if I really joined, then apparently my server's administrator would be able to silently prevent me from seeing other "e…
Two big, vanilla instances are https://mastodon.social and https://mas.to . Unfortunately they've both been struggling to keep up with demand lately. If you're paralyzed by choice, I'd say just go for one of those if / when they're accepting new users. I think Mastodon would get more signups if interested people were just pointed at like ten working, non-specialized, non-tiny instances, rather than being confronted w…
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The thing is, Mastodon isn't adding censorship: Anyone has numerous servers to choose from that will let them say whatever they want, but other people have the choice to go to servers which don't federate with the other one. Free speech is the right to speak, not the right to force everyone to listen. The federation model codifies this.
>Anyone has numerous servers to choose from that will let them say whatever they want, but other people have the choice to go to servers which don't federate with the other one. And then people who are unhappy with the mere existence of other servers hosting speech they dislike will launch coordinated attacks on the upstream infrastructure and revenue streams of those servers, as we've seen time and time and time aga…
And if I’m too quick to block servers, my users will leave for less restrictive alternatives. Same if I’m too slow to block bad actors: people being harassed by users on those servers will leave for somewhere more moderated. In short, there’s a feedback loop that tends to optimize a community’s moderation to follow that community’s preferences. What more could you possibly ask for?
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I remember complaining the “iPad” sounded like a menstrual product. Seemed to do fine.
The i-line of products was already well known by the general public at the time to be synonymous with Apple. iTunes, iPod, iPhone ... those were normal english words prefixed with an "i". People wonder why Apple didn't call their watch the iWatch. This is a much different thing with "mastrodon". It's not a word people are familiar with, has enough syllables to sound funny, and gets combined with other nonsense words…
Toot is as much a basic word as tweet, I think you are just reflecting your own bias towards words from products you already know.