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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?

> all the politics was getting annoying Dumb question but why would this be any different on Mastodon?

That depends on the instance owner and the moderator team they have.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. There is an irony to Mastdon, a more open platform than Twitter, becoming more popular because people thought Musk would make Twitter... more open.

I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.

Musk is banning people who make fun of him... I don't think anyone is under any illusion that Twitter is somehow becoming more open lol

Anyways I think the biggest concern is obviously that blue checkmark tweets will now be prioritized by the algorithm. Making it a pay-to-influence media platform. That's definitely why I quit (or at least unfollowed every single blue checkmark) and that seems to be the biggest concern amongst my friends

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.

Musk is banning people who make fun of him... I don't think anyone is under any illusion that Twitter is somehow becoming more open lol Anyways I think the biggest concern is obviously that blue checkmark tweets will now be prioritized by the algorithm. Making it a pay-to-influence media platform. That's definitely why I quit (or at least unfollowed every single blue checkmark) and that seems to be the biggest concer…

> Musk is banning people who make fun of him

No. He's banning accounts which are impersonating others, and such accounts are now required to add "Parody" to their name to avoid confusing users. I welcome this policy change, as well as the democratization of verification marks.

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