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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by postmeta »

ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

I think he reached peak ad hominem: "a prick" "Space Karen" "King Shithead" "shitty person" "arrogant bastard" "billionaire bozo" "a clown"

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

What's wrong with Mastodon's UX? It's basically Twitter from ten years ago. The whole federated thing is a bit confusing but you can just use the default mastodon.social instance and not think about it.

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Post by mikenew »

ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

I admit I don't use Twitter or Mastodon very much, but Mastodon's UX seems pretty decent these days. At least 50% of the time when I click on a Twitter link something breaks. Either the page doesn't load or a video won't play or whatever. And that's to say nothing of the "SIGN UP FOR TWITTER" bullshit that pops up whenever you click on anything.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by warinukraine »

tptacek wrote: post #95
warinukraine wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask what was your original argument against Mastodon?

I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing. I'm still not bullish about that. But once you use it, you see that it's basically hyper-interactive RSS. (Maybe you see the two at the same thing; I don't.)

> I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing.

So what was your original argument against this?

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by paulcole »

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…

> I'm only in my early 30's, but… [as time has gone on ]… something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends

Welcome to your 30s. You will make fewer friends than you did in your 20s.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by rideontime »

waynecochran wrote: post #84

Was the Twitter API taken down intentionally or is this a bug? If intentional was it announced ahead of time? If its a bug, has this happened before -- looks like in happened in July 2022 ( https://api.twitterstat.us/history?page=3 )?

for 9 hours, and it was acknowledged. hardly comparable.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by adventurer »

Lammy wrote: post #73
xupybd wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It became an insult because people hate women who stand up for themselves. It can't be de-gendered.

That’s not what a Karen is or why people use it.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by tptacek »

warinukraine wrote: post #105
tptacek wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing. I'm still not bullish about that. But once you use it, you see that it's basically hyper-interactive RSS. (Maybe you see the two at the same thing; I don't.)

> I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing. So what was your original argument against this?

That it will never cohere. (That's about as much as I want to say about this right now; this gets boring pretty quickly.)
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