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It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by FortiDude »

croes wrote: post #40
FortiDude wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also don't need to follow toxic people on Twitter, so I really don't know why I would use a badly programmed and infinitely smaller social network

To not support it's new owner

We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists.

But what do you know about the owners of the Mastodon instance you registered your account with? Are they accountable? Are they sensible? Are they competent? Do they even have a real identity?

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by missedthecue »

inductive_magic wrote: post #15
polote wrote: post #4

The same kind of posts happened when zuck changed the private policy of whatsaap a few months ago, everyone was migrating to Signal. Who uses signal now?

My only active chat in WhatsApp is the one with my father. Are HN-type folks seriously still using chat clients by meta? What?

I use WhatsApp. Everyone in Latin America uses it. I don't believe that Zuckerberg is reading my chats, and not concerned enough about E2E encryption to bother evangelizing another app to everyone I know.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by BenGosub »

I don't see a valid reason to leave Twitter in his post. IMO laying off the accessibility team isn't a reason to leave. But, each to his own opinion.

The layoffs will have effect, but it doesn't have to be a bad one. Once they get leaner, they might have a clearer vison and know where to expand.

Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by dnh44 »

polote wrote: post #4

The same kind of posts happened when zuck changed the private policy of whatsaap a few months ago, everyone was migrating to Signal. Who uses signal now?

I just counted all of my signal chats that have had activity since the beginning of September and there’s 34 of them. On WhatsApp that number is 29 and on iMessages(not SMS) it’s 21.

The best way I’ve found to actually get people to keep using signal after you’ve got them to download it is to respond to their WhatsApp messages on signal. It won’t take long until they stop initiating conversations on WhatsApp.

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Post by OscarCunningham »

throwaway-jim wrote: post #10
jimbob45 wrote: post #3

Surely no one felt more desperation for Mastodon to operate as an adequate substitute for Twitter than GOP leadership in the aftermath of Trump's Twitter ban and the 2020 election. If those people, the most motivated people in all of time to make Mastodon work, can't make Mastodon work, then I struggle to see how the Musk-haters plan to switch over successfully. I'd apply the same argument to every other platform - i…

Anecdotal - I had a account in one of the largest english mastodon instances for a few years now and have seen multiple waves of twitter exodus into mastodon. Server becomes extra lively for a few weeks and then it returns to normal. None of these people last.

https://the-federation.info/mastodon

It looks to me like not all of them go away. There was a noticable step up after the spike in May.

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Post by ealexhudson »

BenGosub wrote: post #53

I don't see a valid reason to leave Twitter in his post. IMO laying off the accessibility team isn't a reason to leave. But, each to his own opinion. The layoffs will have effect, but it doesn't have to be a bad one. Once they get leaner, they might have a clearer vison and know where to expand.

If Musk wants twitter to be the town square for the world, that town square needs to be accessible for all.

Even though this might not directly affect Simon, hats off to him for making that decision. If twitter starts becoming as inaccessible as most other systems it will lock out people and remove their voices from twitter. That feels like an incredibly valid reason, and isn't the point of free markets to vote with your feet?

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Post by coffeeblack »

radu_floricica wrote: post #29
HanTrio3 wrote: post #7

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I'm not even mad, it's just funny. It's just another salvo in the culture war - from this point of view, a management change in a major SM platform is pretty significant, especially when that platform was openly biased in one direction. So you have the usual noise, which has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter as a product or company.

This seems to be the most correct take. Mastodon looks more like a left wing version of Gettr to me.

I wonder of Bezos will try using AWS to fight it now. Like it appears they did to stop Parler.

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Post by gonehome »

missedthecue wrote: post #52
inductive_magic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only active chat in WhatsApp is the one with my father. Are HN-type folks seriously still using chat clients by meta? What?

I use WhatsApp. Everyone in Latin America uses it. I don't believe that Zuckerberg is reading my chats, and not concerned enough about E2E encryption to bother evangelizing another app to everyone I know.

WhatsApp is encrypted end to end for what it’s worth. They just retain chat metadata that signal does not.
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