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It's a solid improvement but the move from Twitter to Mastodon is not happening[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693037
The point of Mastodon is not for everyone from Twitter to move there.
Some want to find their Twitter peeps on Mastodon. You're free to feel othewise.
It's a solid improvement but the move from Twitter to Mastodon is not happening[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693037
Both are crap now. English and technical people are on Mastodon, while institutions and official bodies are still on twitter.
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The point of Mastodon is not for everyone from Twitter to move there.
The point of Mastodon is that it allows for diversity of opinion (even in the meta-level - opinion as to what's allowed/not). Some want to find their Twitter peeps on Mastodon. You're free to feel othewise.
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Both are crap now. English and technical people are on Mastodon, while institutions and official bodies are still on twitter.
Not everyone I think. I'm still on Twitter mostly because I for the life of me can't figure out how Mastodon works. I think I'm just too old for this.
I feel the "multiple instances" aspect of Mastodon really confuses people. Highlighting it to new users is not working in their favour.
It's a solid improvement but the move from Twitter to Mastodon is not happening[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693037
I love the name, Nintendo's StreetPass was such a cool tool. It was awesome just finding someone random to play with in an airport or waiting room.
I still bring a 3ds in my bag when I fly just on the off chance I get a street pass. Sure I know you can run your own relays at home, but it was always neat finding a random person, more so when you had a repeat.
Nintendo had a deal with someone (att?) that all their free wifi hotspots would work as street pass relays. The way this worked under the hood is that your 3ds would see a wifi network named attwifi and then check the mac address of the ap, then it would report to Nintendo backend "hey, I just passed near mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx". Then Nintendo would note that down and also make it so the previous 3ds who visited that spot is now a street pass hit on your 3ds.
So, you would setup openwrt to broadcast a network named attwifi and make it switch every minute to a random mac from a list shared by everyone else doing this and you had yourself a guaranteed 10 hits a day (10 being the artificial limit Nintendo imposed).
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Both are crap now. English and technical people are on Mastodon, while institutions and official bodies are still on twitter.
Not everyone I think. I'm still on Twitter mostly because I for the life of me can't figure out how Mastodon works. I think I'm just too old for this.
I love the nod to the 3DS StreetPass. It would be nice to have this built into a Mastadon mobile app rather than a browser extension.
> StreetPass for Mastodon takes the same idea, but applies it to the web instead. Every time you visit a website, you can make a connection with the owner of that website, if the website has registered a verification on Mastodon. What is the advantage versus writing "my mastodon is at " on the web page?