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Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by hoppoy »

chadlavi wrote: post #46
hoppoy wrote: post #29

My main problem with Mastodon is it's such a tiresome monoculture of opinion. So many people with the pretty much the same politics, biases, grievances as everyone else. Any server that dissents too much from this gets a fediverse block. The whole thing is just so tedious. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy reading opinions from people I have nothing in common with in terms of world view, and whom I vehe…

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Same problem but in an approximately opposite ideological direction.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by hoppoy »

tdeck wrote: post #59
hoppoy wrote: post #29

My main problem with Mastodon is it's such a tiresome monoculture of opinion. So many people with the pretty much the same politics, biases, grievances as everyone else. Any server that dissents too much from this gets a fediverse block. The whole thing is just so tedious. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy reading opinions from people I have nothing in common with in terms of world view, and whom I vehe…

I'm not saying it's easy but you could probably run your own instance and subscribe to multiple different servers that have the diversity you're looking for.

That's interesting, is it possible to subscribe to servers secretly so other servers don't know you've done so? Otherwise, I imagine my own hypothetical instance would get swiftly blocked.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by hoppoy »

ruminator1 wrote: post #42
none_to_remain wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice we don't see situations arising where Yahoo users can't send email to Gmail users because the boss of Gmail doesn't like that that the boss of Yahoo allows Fastmail users to send email to Yahoo users

This right here is my primary problem with Mastodon. Its ripe for drama like this. The amount of glee I saw in the older users their about defedrating felt really unsettling. "If X company comes we will defedarate them" "If X celebrity comes we will defedarate them".

Exactly this, it's like the most emotionally immature people on Twitter have been given an even more powerful blocklist to play with. Like thousands of mini-Musks with their own volatility problems.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by DeLopSpot »

hoppoy wrote: post #90
DeLopSpot wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an issue addressed by the Mastodon Server Covenant: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant The Covenant includes a commitment from server admins to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down

That's an agreement with no teeth, they can just shut it down without warning, and then what do you do.

If this is very important to you, then you should find a server admin that you trust, such as a friend or a fellow industry professional.

You can also use a paid instance like https://cloudisland.nz/ or set up your own using a hosted service like masto.host

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by frankacter »

micahflee wrote: post #62

I was suspended for posting this https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/109520648205436407

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603181423787380737

"Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info."

While you did not embed the link itself, that nuance is a distinction without a difference as the intent was still to share the location to a site with real-time location information, which as stated, will result in suspension/ban.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by pifm_guy »

lapcat wrote: post #67
Chinjut wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also Matt Binder (@MattBinder; see https://twitter.com/adamjraabe/status/1603554054134812676 ).

The Intercept's @micahflee https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/16035580211201187... Keith Olbermann, and others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008305 Hard to see how the remaining advertisers don't flee Twitter after tonight's slaughter.

Advertisers don't care if some users are banned or if the platform is 'unfair'.

Advertisers care if their advert shows up to something illegal or bad for the brand.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by emodendroket »

Sithwuth wrote: post #10
standardUser wrote: post #4

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.

Well, for the most part they don't, they use either their ISP e-mail, their work e-mail, or Gmail. iCloud might be a distant runner up. I rarely see anybody using even Yahoo or hotmail anymore.
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