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Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by clort »

sandworm101 wrote: post #70
bboygravity wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While Musk can no longer claim to be a free speech absolutist, What are the arguments for this?? Is it because he's blocking live trackers (from Mastodon or otherwise) for his airplane while he's an active target for political assasination or is there like.. an actual good reason/example for this statement?

He can simple hire/fly in someone else's plane. This isnt a tracker on him. It is a tracker on his own vanity.

Presumably for a whole lot less than he paid for Twitter, he could have purchased 100 jets and flown them around the country continually for years, hopping on and off as he chose and nobody would have any idea where he was. He is still, afaik, 'worth' 100s of billions of dollars even though his wealth has plummeted.

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by nemo44x »

_djo_ wrote: post #59
nemo44x wrote: post #42

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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…

The audience for far left propagandists is much smaller than they’ve been telling you. They’ve been amplifying each other for years but as that infrastructure is taken away from them, they’ll head back to the margins where they belong. Like the far right trolls they aren’t too different from.

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Post by pleasedontsell »

Hakkin wrote: post #38
waihtis wrote: post #28

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I'm not going to fact-check this article for obvious reasons, but is this article referring to actual CSAM or drawn artwork? The author seems to be heavily implying the former but I suspect it's actually the latter.

The article cites the second and third ranked instances as the most active instances and prevalent CP communities, but both are japanese so I'm going to guess it's mostly drawn artwork.

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Post by goodpoint »

Hakkin wrote: post #38
waihtis wrote: post #28

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I'm not going to fact-check this article for obvious reasons, but is this article referring to actual CSAM or drawn artwork? The author seems to be heavily implying the former but I suspect it's actually the latter.

The article is simply complete FUD

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by fredgrott »

kybernetyk wrote: post #89
codeflo wrote: post #39

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…

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unless they are German American :)

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by whitepaint »

darkerside wrote: post #87
codeflo wrote: post #39

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…

It's interesting that now, when it would be most relevant, discussion about a social media platform running on blockchain has all but disappeared. If not now, then when?

Because blockchains are definitely not built for that..?

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Post by beowulfey »

codeflo wrote: post #39

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 am a little younger than the days of decentralized social media, but I caught the tail end of it. To me, Mastodon feels like an “email address” for social media. I think a lot of people are so used to centralized platforms that it seems crazy to have it be decentralized again.

I suspect as Mastodon grows, there will be more servers that become popular and will likely host the bulk of people, in much the same way that gmail pulled in the bulk of email users—but it will still be possible to have other “addresses” too. The idea is starting to grow on me.

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