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I meant for me, I should have been clear.
aaah, that's fair enough.
My wife is still on, I peek from time to time, it seems disorienting with the new blue check semantics. But I guess you get used to that?
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> Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? My understanding is that the significant accounts tend not to use the official apps / web interface, one of the biggest reasons being so that they can track accounts for reading purposes without providing what the algorithm treats as a positive endorsement of them, and so that they can use the signal boosting effect of “following” sel…
Interesting idea but it doesn’t really support: > Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use So some celebs, journalists, and the overwhelming minority of users have to use a burner or browse incognito?
Alright, why don't you tell us why people use Tweetbot.
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aaah, that's fair enough.
My wife is still on, I peek from time to time, it seems disorienting with the new blue check semantics. But I guess you get used to that?
Yeah, the blue checkmark means nothing anymore. That I do find annoying. But I ignore it as best I can.
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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.)
To be fair, there still isn't an easy way (that I know of) to make sites (dynamic first, static later) ActivityPub participants.
I'd love it if my site's posts were ActivityPub posts, with ActivityPub replies being shown on the site as comments. I think that would be an amazing thing, but it's currently not very easy to do.
I guess I better get coding again.
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Before Napster there was FTP.
The first MP3 I downloaded was from IRC and played back on the Fraunhofer Institute MP3 player. Old timers will remember that if you caused your screen to redraw at all, say by scrolling a window, the audio would skip. The first song? Bob Dylan - Stuck in the Middle With You… which is actually by Steeler’s Wheel.
Oh man, I remember when the Xing MP3 encoder was the only one that could encode in near-realtime on my 100 MHz Pentium back in the day.
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#256Sorry to break it to you Elon but you really did spend $44 billion on the next MySpace. There's nothing you can do about it now. All we ask is that you please stop trashing your Tesla brand. Oh!!! and by the way recommend to the BOD to make Tom Zhu CEO of Tesla. You can stay at Twitter.
Twitter had so much potential under new leadership. There are so many ways he could have made the platform a richer experience. YouTube could have been a competitor. But he squandered it in a truly epic fashion.
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#257He 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 ove…
Space Karen is more than generous.
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#258I never relied on Twitter's API, since building stuff with it is akin to building your castle on other people's land. You're always going to be a tenant, and the API gatekeepers play landlord and can rugpull you without notice. But I'm looking into Nostr[0] as an alternative, aswell as ActivityPub which seems to be working well these days. Dorsey's Bluesky Social[1] looks promising too, but it's a very late move sinc…
Why would I even need a twitter client when the experience of using twitter is going downhill. I think the API being shut down should be the least of his worries.
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Interesting idea but it doesn’t really support: > Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use So some celebs, journalists, and the overwhelming minority of users have to use a burner or browse incognito?
Alright, why don't you tell us why people use Tweetbot.
Why would I do that?
Someone said Twitter was essentially unusable without Tweetbot. As someone who finds Twitter very usable without Tweetbot, I asked, “Why?” Someone else said that a very small number of people have a very specific use case that makes Tweetbot better than the Twitter apps/website. I said that was a neat example but doesn’t really apply to many people.
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"Twitter is not a real place, it's just a social network" The idea that what happens on the internet is unimportant compared to what happens "in real life" hadn't made sense for over a decade now. The internet is real life.
This is so utterly wrong it hurts. The internet is real life the same way that evening news is real life. It’s a self-referential funhouse mirror that’s useful exactly for understanding what people who post on the internet think, and “people who post on the internet” is a tiny, profoundly idiosyncratic group. Conflating their opinions with “real life” is a powerful solvent for rationality, empathy, and mental health.
Depending on demographics, including stage of life, many people talk to their real life friends online more than than they do in person.