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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Waterluvian »

Ciantic wrote: post #2

End of an era. I like that he sees that ActivityPub should be so much more than Mastodon. "a truly universal timeline" of various things on the internet. For that to happen we can't limit ourselves to just Mastodon, but start building alternative takes. Yes, some aren't viewable on other clients, but that's fine, then they just show a link, but at least you can reply/reblog/like items.

I just hope we walk before we try to run. It feels like Mastodon has been given a colossal opportunity and it feels like it’s being completely squandered.

I trust that Space Jerk will give Mastodon a very long opportunity window but the sooner the better.

Maybe revolution is a good idea and I’m completely wrong. But I still find Mastodon so frustrating and unreliable that I am just not on social media at all now.

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Post by tptacek »

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about this. It's easy to see the potential, and how it pulls in the writing we were all doing before there was Twitter while keeping most of what Twitter was good for too.

I'm expecting this to be the second-dumbest thing I ever predicted badly (I dismissed MP3s, too!)

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Post by bobleeswagger »

gnarbarian wrote: post #8

He has every right to be mad but this post comes off as petulant and juvenile.

> Space Karen

> billionaire bozo

> comparisons to his Mother's death

Yeah, I had a hard time getting through it. At least, I don't get the point the author is trying to make.

Is this really a surprise given the direction social data has gone in the past decade or so? APIs will only remain public as long as they are useful.

Elon sees an upside to making the API at twitter more private, in order to maintain control over Twitter's direction. You can argue as much as you want for, or against this, but don't add noise and make me rake through it.

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Post by scarface74 »

Ciantic wrote: post #2

End of an era. I like that he sees that ActivityPub should be so much more than Mastodon. "a truly universal timeline" of various things on the internet. For that to happen we can't limit ourselves to just Mastodon, but start building alternative takes. Yes, some aren't viewable on other clients, but that's fine, then they just show a link, but at least you can reply/reblog/like items.

Micro blog supports ActivityPub

https://help.micro.blog/t/mastodon-and-activitypub/95

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Post by dom96 »

Great post. I hope we see a multitude of new clients for Mastodon. In the meantime, if you're someone like me that is dipping their feet into Mastodon but isn't ready to leave Twitter fully yet, then you might be interested in a browser extension I developed[0] which puts Mastodon posts in your Twitter timeline.

[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/l...

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Post by mkoc »

Not sure how it is for others, but for me tapbot Tweetbot is working again since today; is the API back up?

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

samwillis wrote: post #3

This is a moving post, I wish Craig and everyone else effected by these events the best, onwards and upwards! If these people who pioneered the use of Twitter and fundamentally steered how it developed through their community contributions turn their experience to Mastodon and the Fediverse, big things will come. From the ashes of one thing can be built the future.

It should be liberating, no more working under ever worsening constraints, someone just ripped off the band-aid and made the hard choice for them. Didn't want to let go? Not sure of how much effort and support to continue putting in? Problem solved! The answer is zero. Zilch. Nada. Enjoy the free time!
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