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Banning ElonJet was already a cheat, so I'm extremely curious how this is one is justified.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221215174053/https://twitter.c...
Twitter faces no real threat from Mastodon until they streamline their sign up process and mask the "decentralized server" nonsense. I understand that the people here don't see it as nonsense, but the millions of less tech savvy users needed to make it a true Twitter alternative do see it that way and it will prevent Mastodon from ever being more than a niche service. It's a baffling process to the everyday user who…
Curious as to how many people manage to sign up for email addresses across a variety of providers despite all that decentralised server nonsense.
Even cable TV providers allow ads for DirecTV, etc.
Twitter faces no real threat from Mastodon until they streamline their sign up process and mask the "decentralized server" nonsense. I understand that the people here don't see it as nonsense, but the millions of less tech savvy users needed to make it a true Twitter alternative do see it that way and it will prevent Mastodon from ever being more than a niche service. It's a baffling process to the everyday user who…
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Even cable TV providers allow ads for DirecTV, etc.
Twitter faces no real threat from Mastodon until they streamline their sign up process and mask the "decentralized server" nonsense. I understand that the people here don't see it as nonsense, but the millions of less tech savvy users needed to make it a true Twitter alternative do see it that way and it will prevent Mastodon from ever being more than a niche service. It's a baffling process to the everyday user who…
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The improvement I think is you can jump to a different instance, and being all your followers and following with you. Whereas if you're the subject of an arbitrary decision by the Twitter overlord, all you can really do is post about it online and try to stir up enough bad PR for the company that they reverse their decision.
Some examples:
- https://fosstodon.org for FOSS - https://infosec.exchange for infosec - https://sfba.social for the bay area
There's a map of locality-specific instances here: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/mastodon-near-me_828094