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The pivot from “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law”[1] to “I get to use censorship to kneecap a competitor because it’s my site now” was almost comically quick. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
Comedy is now legal on Twitter.
I'm exactly in the target demographic that desperately wants a a return to the old, decentralized, protocol-based internet. We need working alternatives to Twitter to prevent a single mentally unstable billionaire from having this kind of power. But everything about Mastodon seems badly designed and engineered. The focus on "servers" seems technologically anachronistic, but worse, fragments the community and creates…
I don't understand what decentralized internet service you would prefer then? The ability for anyone to host their own decentralized instance is exactly what a return to the protocols of old would look like. They may not have had anime avatars, but you were just as susceptible to the whims of your IRC admin. Either you trust in the faceless centralized conglomerate or in your smaller devop. What third option is there?
It seems to work by blocking connections to the Twitterbot User-Agent while allowing other connections.
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I don’t see how it can be doxxing when it’s publicly available information that anyone can look up at any time. Naming and shaming the usage of private jets is a useful public service if you ask me. Blocking an entire competitor service just because of a single account? Elon is just a hypocrite.
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There have been several reports of people updating their profile with links to their Mastodon profile only to be told by Twitter that the update failed because it contained malware and other such issues.
Would it be accurate to call this censorship or a quick and dirty solution against accounts trying to evade TOS?
Framing the Mastodon filter by omitting that context is insincere. This type of insincerity is fairly typical in politics (which this entire ordeal is).
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Post is now accepting new users via a waitlist. It’s only a matter of time before it steals everyone worth stealing from Twitter.
TL;DR Less of a foregone conclusion than you say.
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And they’ll just be reporting news to each other leaving a massive vacuum on Twitter for others to quickly fill. Most people don’t really care about this story. They’re just users looking for news, opinions, trending topics, etc. if you don’t follow these types of accounts then you haven’t noticed much change on Twitter. Honestly if anything I’ve noticed Twitter is probably a bit more fun and interesting now.
People are on Twitter because of accounts like that, across the spectrum. It was the one place where you could find everyone, including politicians, organisations, journalists, experts, and random people with cool interests, and interact on a more or less equal basis. When enough of those leave it'll just become Truth Social or Parler. You might personally find that more fun and interesting, depending on your politic…
But no, he wanted to make a big public outcry out of it, and he's now reaping the consequences.
I'm exactly in the target demographic that desperately wants a a return to the old, decentralized, protocol-based internet. We need working alternatives to Twitter to prevent a single mentally unstable billionaire from having this kind of power. But everything about Mastodon seems badly designed and engineered. The focus on "servers" seems technologically anachronistic, but worse, fragments the community and creates…
> I'm exactly in the target demographic that desperately wants a a return to the old, decentralized, protocol-based internet. We need working alternatives to Twitter to prevent a single mentally unstable billionaire from having this kind of power. But everything about Mastodon seems badly designed and engineered. The focus on "servers" seems technologically anachronisticm. I don't understand what decentralized intern…