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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Waterluvian »

Ciantic wrote: post #49
Waterluvian wrote: post #11

Earlier 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.

I feel like it was squandered as well, but I don't blame anyone on that, Mastodon core team employed their second person last month full-time. When the next wave comes I hope if Mastodon can't get its act together there are commercial offerings that can take the wave, and I'm all for it. Cloudflare is building its own Mastodon API-compatible server, and Medium put its own instance.

This is what I’m super pumped about. Because of the fundamentals of the technology, big actors with resources to do it properly can make Mastodon awesome, without completely capturing the social network.

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Post by Lio »

I’ve had the Mastodon client downloaded for a while now but haven’t really got round to switching over to it.

I think this is the push I really need. Space Karen has done me a favour.

I sure as shit won’t be going back to Twitter’s dumpster fire of a native client.

Edited timelines, promoted tweets and user preferences that randomly reset themselves to the most annoying settings.

Nope.

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Post by k__ »

godelski wrote: post #50

I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how it has changed my life. I'm only in my early 30's, but I think many others my age grew up online and when the internet felt smaller, but in a different way. I made life long friends through these means. But something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends. What I personally miss is the small niche communities. These don't…

"as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends."

Probably has to do with your age.

I made many friends in my 20s, most through the internet.

This got less and less as I grew older.

But I know a bunch of people in their 20s who still make friends online.

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Post by xupybd »

Lammy wrote: post #37

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A Karen is a personality type. They are not imputing the gender on Elon but the personality. By applying the insult to men they are de-gendering the insult.

Not that I like the term Space Karen.

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Post by kristianc »

nathias wrote: post #54
godelski wrote: post #50

I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how it has changed my life. I'm only in my early 30's, but I think many others my age grew up online and when the internet felt smaller, but in a different way. I made life long friends through these means. But something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends. What I personally miss is the small niche communities. These don't…

they still exist on the fringes, there are forums from early web, new forums, new types of tech (defi and crypto has a lot of that)

> new types of tech (defi and crypto has a lot of that)

I’m sure crypto and Defi has some good people, but a huge proportion of them seem to be grifters and scammers who I’d want nothing to do with. That wasn’t really the case on the early web.

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

godelski wrote: post #50

I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how it has changed my life. I'm only in my early 30's, but I think many others my age grew up online and when the internet felt smaller, but in a different way. I made life long friends through these means. But something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends. What I personally miss is the small niche communities. These don't…

Most of the old niche groups (IRC groups, imageboards, forums, etc) I used to spend time on just migrated into private spaces once social media became a de facto public space on the internet. These places usually live as Discord guilds, Matrix spaces, Telegram group chats, private fora, Patreon groups, alternate networks (such as: mailing lists, Gemini, Freenet, Urbit, etc.)

I also feel like all this noise about Twitter is just the Twitter early adopters realizing what the old IRC and imageboard users knew long ago: social media is a semi-public space now that everyone is online.

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Post by hummingn3rd »

zenmacro wrote: post #47
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…

Are there any guides, tools, apps, etc to try out ActivityPub?

Martin fowler made a guide from his own transition to mastodon https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html

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Post by [deleted] »

kristianc wrote: post #65
nathias wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they still exist on the fringes, there are forums from early web, new forums, new types of tech (defi and crypto has a lot of that)

> new types of tech (defi and crypto has a lot of that) I’m sure crypto and Defi has some good people, but a huge proportion of them seem to be grifters and scammers who I’d want nothing to do with. That wasn’t really the case on the early web.

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Post by thih9 »

The brand is losing so much credibility among developers, I guess we'll see even fewer products with Twitter API as a core feature.

I know this has been a trend for the last couple of years but this kind of lack of communication seems like a milestone.

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