He has every right to be mad but this post comes off as petulant and juvenile.
> petulant and juvenile Who does that remind you of?
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#22It’s not even clear that they “pulled the plug”, could just be a temporary outage. Wish Musk would announce his thoughts on the future of the API, though.
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#23Twitter has been crippling their API long before "Space Hilter" took over. https://tidbits.com/2018/08/20/twitter-cripples-third-party-...
Yes that is mentioned in the opening paragraphs of the article.
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#25End 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.
Apparently as a baby I learned to run before walking so I want to defend doing it that way.
Running is a bit easier than walking, walking is a process of carefully balancing at each step. Running is just falling, but you catch yourself before you hit the ground. As long as you aren’t too concerned with steering, you can easily at least run until you find an obstacle. And then you’ve learned about a new type of obstacle!
Even the fastest baby should have trouble getting into trouble as long as the parents are attentive — they are tiny and parents have long arms to catch them.
Babies barely have the capability to generate enough kinetic energy to harm themselves I’m pretty sure.
Or I dunno, at least I survived. Apply this to your analogy as you’d like.
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#27It’s not even clear that they “pulled the plug”, could just be a temporary outage. Wish Musk would announce his thoughts on the future of the API, though.
Regardless of how it started, a "temporary outage" that has lasted for several days and has received zero acknowledgement from the company can now be considered intentional. They don't get the benefit of doubt without sending even a bare minimum "sorry, we are working on fixing it" tweet.
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#28I'm still waiting to hear any kind of official word, but it looks pretty bleak.
Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use. Checking in on https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/, the alternate UI, it's almost usable, but still missing like 8 of the most important features that made Twitter useful to me.
I have been posting sometimes on Mastodon but still primarily on Twitter, waiting to see how things turned out. But if Tweetbot at least isn't restored, I will switch roles and will likely try out Mastodon for a while, posting just a little on Twitter.
The problem is, most of the "Fediverse" right now is a big echo chamber (kind of like Voat was when Reddit had its weird issues a few years back, or more charitably like a community like HN is... it's not always bad as long as people are aware of it). So it's not the same kind of community as Twitter had.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apparently as a baby I learned to run before walking so I want to defend doing it that way. Running is a bit easier than walking, walking is a process of carefully balancing at each step. Running is just falling, but you catch yourself before you hit the ground. As long as you aren’t too concerned with steering, you can easily at least run until you find an obstacle. And then you’ve learned about a new type of obstac…
me typing out a definition for running that dictates that it’s not just stumbling recklessly forward in style, all for an analogy
“You’re probably wondering how I got here…”
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#30Twitter has been crippling their API long before "Space Hilter" took over. https://tidbits.com/2018/08/20/twitter-cripples-third-party-...
Space Hitler? That's the kind of hyperbole that seriously undercuts your credibility. Mr. Musk is "Space Mussolini" at best.