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Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by ahepp »

rglullis wrote: post #218
barathr wrote: post #91

For those wondering about how to sign up to mastodon and what server to pick: It's like picking an email server. They all have their differences, but generally they are interoperable. You can read users from anywhere, and follow from anywhere. Better yet, it's fairly easy to move your account from one server to another if you don't like it. Your best bet is some of the bigger second-tier servers (ones that have thous…

> Your best bet is some of the bigger second-tier servers. Until they get overloaded, and face the same issues as the "first tier" ones... I know that what I am about to say is out of personal interest, but I really wish people took the analogy to email servers more seriously and started looking at commercial providers. I'm offering Mastodon services for about $0.50/user/month [0], and I have the infra to host 20-30k…

Is there a way for me to export if I decide to self host later?

I don't have the time to set up a Mastodon server right now, but part of the appeal of Mastodon is having more control over my data.

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Post by theGnuMe »

m_fayer wrote: post #203
DiNovi wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i know the brain poison social media gives us all… it’s wild to see

Yep. Along with Musk and Kanye. Those are cases where the poison has fully penetrated. How many of our elites are less noticeably but still significantly impaired though? It's a frightening thought.

Well I mean Trump was the scariest.

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Post by tedunangst »

insanitybit wrote: post #176
wpietri wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sure. Given that Musk was fired from [deleted, see note 1] and PayPal, you'd think they might have had more questions. But people look at failure much more carefully than they look at success. I think the next wave of interesting questions is around the extent to which Musk contributed the apparent successes, SpaceX and Tesla. We won't know for a long time, as a lot of the people in the know have a strong incenti…

Musk is a celebrity. Celebrities start successful companies all the time. Is Rihanna a brilliant business woman for starting a successful beauty line? Is she a business genius , which is what Musk gets labeled so often? Maybe she really is, but I don't see her get that label, I think her value add is very clearly "she is famous, people will buy shit that she puts her name on". What they have in common is that they ha…

They also start moderately but not wildly successful companies and then leak fake tax returns to look more successful, like Kylie Jenner.

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Post by sdiacom »

zug_zug wrote: post #128
threeseed wrote: post #21

There’s an old adage about never meeting your heroes that applies well to PG. Some of his daily takes were so embarrassing and insipid that it was hard to maintain respect. It’s funny because his long form posts which are often insightful were likely reviewed/edited by a third person. A concept he has actually said only exists in the modern commercial publishing era.

So I notice a trend for people to take seem to take stabs at PG whenever he's brought up, and sometimes not seemingly even relevant to the article at hand. I suppose you can only speak for yourself, but I find the words "insipid" and "embarrassing" particularly emotional / unscientific. Out of curiosity, what is there a connection to the article at hand or alternatively why do you feel it's important to spread awaren…

Just last month, he was passionately defending Elon Musk's decisions running Twitter, on Twitter, from all those annoying plebs who dared to speak their minds about it, not even having ran any companies themselves.

The topic of "the article at hand" is, inevitably, his incompetence.

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Post by memish »

threeseed wrote: post #21

There’s an old adage about never meeting your heroes that applies well to PG. Some of his daily takes were so embarrassing and insipid that it was hard to maintain respect. It’s funny because his long form posts which are often insightful were likely reviewed/edited by a third person. A concept he has actually said only exists in the modern commercial publishing era.

PG still has an excellent batting average and is more insightful than not even on Twitter.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by thepasswordis »

Here's the problem: https://mas.to/@paulg/109536476979036192

I can see that he's replying to somebody, but can't actually see the conversation (presumably because there is some problem with the servers all trying to talk to each other to reassemble it?)

This is terrible.

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Post by justsomehnguy »

jansan wrote: post #254
azangru wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Mastodon? I thought that because it isn't serving you ads, it has much less incentive for keeping you constantly engaged and outraged.

Following Paul Graham's link to his profile was my first visit to Mastodon. This was hugely underwhelming. It looks and feels just slow and sad, not sure how this should attract the average user.

> It looks and feels just slow and sad

Honestly, this is the same feel I get when I visit Twitter. Thing is - I don't have an app, so it's always slow.

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Post by cldellow »

shadowgovt wrote: post #232
cldellow wrote: post #50

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> How does one find a good Mastodon server? Hm, what makes a good server? I think for me, I want: not going to disappear, high uptime, low latency, moderate moderation. You can measure moderation by going to most server's /about page, to see which servers they've limited interactions with. I'm on hachyderm.io. It's good, but could be better. I expect it will remain at least at this baseline level of quality, so I'm t…

Yes, this is the thing. Mastodon has a bit of a discovery issue that other social network options don't have (it's akin to asking "What's a good email provider?"). I haven't tried it myself, but this purports to suggest a server based on some info about you ( https://instances.social/ ). And ( https://joinmastodon.org/servers ) is kind of the "main" list.

Yeah, it's pretty frustrating.

I initially tried the https://joinmastodon.org/servers thing in November, but the things proposed seemed like very niche communities.

I just tried the https://instances.social/ link -- the top 2 hits for me were very small instances (fewer than 5 people), which I wouldn't have much faith in joining.

Actually, I guess I should have mentioned how I _actually_ chose a server. I used https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ and joined the first fast-enough server that most of my existing contacts were on.

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