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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by samwillis »

tptacek wrote: post #12

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…

I was sceptical too, but at this point I would say 75% of the people I followed who I really got value from have moved over. But not only that, the conversation has become better, more in depth and less fleeting.

I just hope the last few people I follow on Twitter who I really enjoy following move over too. But unfortunately that's "Space Twitter", so we will see...

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Post by paxys »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #20
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!

Loss of the product itself, however hard, can be dealt with. It's the loss of the community that really stings.

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Post by cmcfadden »

mkoc wrote: post #19

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

Paul mentioned that they had a way to push new API info to the clients, so I think they basically just re-registered the app as a YOLO thing to see how long until Twitter pulls the plug again.

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Post by thejohnconway »

geerlingguy wrote: post #28

I'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.…

Twitter was never one community though, of course. The amount of interaction I had outside my bubble was really minimal. I could see other people shouting at each other if I wanted to, but of course I could do that without having an account.

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Post by w0mbat »

The “Space Karen” slur is lame. Elon is the manager in this situation, and if you’re complaining to the manager, you’re the Karen.

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Post by threeseed »

antiquark wrote: post #18

Twitter has been crippling their API long before "Space Hilter" took over. https://tidbits.com/2018/08/20/twitter-cripples-third-party-...

Given how many of us used third party apps I wouldn't say it was crippled.

And there are only two examples given: streaming and push notifications.

The first as Twitter pointed out was because it was only ever a beta feature and even today their own apps don't support this feature.

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Post by joshgachnang »

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #24

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Losing your business like this has to be infuriating, but that's always the risk building your business on top of someone else's business. However, the writing style completely undercuts the message with the name calling. I wonder if Craig will still pull the plug now that the API seems to be back up.
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