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Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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They have almost completely migrated to Mastodon

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Many had automation that broke with the twitter api being rug pulled.

Others don't care for the way they systematically dismantled their trust and safety team.

And finally, some just don't like the direction the platform is heading.

Twitter has made it clear they don't care about their employees, their platform users or anything but frantically trying to extract a bit of money out of zombie company.

Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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I suspect your reasoning is also motivated, though I don’t know by what. There are things I’ll give credit for. I suspect the “community notes” feature is overall beneficial (though I haven’t seen it much firsthand because I use a very outdated version of the application, which doesn’t support it.). Also, making the code for the recommendation algorithm publicly readable was very cool, and I appreciate it. The way th…

Community notes is not a new feature.

Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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A whole list of infosec folks on there for importing, if anyone wants: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t13k5_cNhP9_TgoUmqDZ...

You might want to add a column for Bluesky/AT Protocol people too.

Not mine. :)

Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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this is so sad rip

rip? its not dead, it just moved. the community just shifted to a platform that is _much_ more suited to the community’s needs.

- it’s open, in more ways than just the obvious. while twitter is narrowing in just about every direction you can think of.

- significantly higher signal that isn’t lost amongst a bunch of noise.

- relates to above, but kinda different: waay better quality of discourse. just much more pleasant.

- much more responsive and predictable admin. so so so many props to jerry.

definitely not a bad thing, it’s absolutely a step up and out.

Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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They have almost completely migrated to Mastodon

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This is... fairly normal; possibly people forget because we have been in a period of relative stability for social networks, but this is how it usually works. It's basically how web forums reproduced, when those were the primary form of social media; forum starts to get a bit shit, people get annoyed, communities within that forum start decamping en masse for elsewhere (often a completely new forum). It's a fairly natural human behaviour; if the people you interact with go to X, you probably go to X, too.

I mean, what do you expect to happen? 20% to Mastodon, 20% to Threads, 20% to T2, 20% to Bluesky, 20% stay, to avoid being perceived as a 'hivemind'?

This is actually one reason I think it's rather unlikely that there will be a single Twitter-killer, with everyone from Twitter moving to Threads or whatever and then continuing on as normal. Threads will probably be the biggest (particularly if it manages to launch in the EU; that's a big problem for it right now), but I'd expect a year from now that there'll be Threads, a bunch of Mastodon instances (maybe more loosely federated than today, probably more community-oriented), maybe Bluesky (I don't personally _get_ it, but some people seem to like it) and a rump Twitter.

Re: The Death of Infosec Twitter

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A whole list of infosec folks on there for importing, if anyone wants: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t13k5_cNhP9_TgoUmqDZ...

You might want to add a column for Bluesky/AT Protocol people too.

If you change the CSV format, you break the ability to import it directly to mastodon.
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