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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

rewtraw wrote: post #610
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #605

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Just by not showing random posts which the algorithm decides I should see on my timeline itself makes Mastodon leagues better than Twitter. I've been interacting with only couple of people whom I follow and vice versa for past several months I've been on Mastodon and I feel great about it. I'm convinced that federated instances are the solution to the social media problems just by strong focus on the theme and inhere…

without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances, it really is a massive hindrance to network effects and will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche

>without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances

Can you be more specific? Only thing I found missing was "Quote Posts" and almost everyone seems to agree that it was the right decision to make.

> will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche

And its not a good thing? "There's an instance for everything" is fast becoming an reality, Let those instances be small as its managed by volunteers;

There's no need for everything to grow into a democracy destroying scale, Especially Social Media platforms.

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Post by super256 »

wyclif wrote: post #609
propogandist wrote: post #595

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this was the same narrative pushed when most of the tweeps was axed, but the site has been running fine and has only grown in popularity.

It's actually faster now than it's ever been, especially if you're using it from outside of North America.

Search breaks for me all the time, and I need to manually refresh the site at least once a day. Also, I can only scroll on Musk’s twitter profile to his tweets from September.

I think it’s due to more aggressive VPN blocking, but I’m not sure about it.

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Post by manmal »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #365
manmal wrote: post #330

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Have you tried kagi? I‘m finding it better than ddg and often on paar with G.

+1 for Kagi. It's been my default search engine since Jan '22 and I'm very happy with it. On the rare occasions when I use Bing or Google I'm reminded all over again why I'm happy to pay for search.

I’m having the same experience. Anytime I’m not satisfied with kagi’s results, I try Google and that’s usually worse.

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Post by Firmwarrior »

AlbertCory wrote: post #218
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #157

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Same. Most of my readers come from HN, reddit or substack itself. Now it's mostly Python so it makes sense a tech oriented medias will be reading more about it. Still, the ban on substack by twitter means that, while a #python tweet gets some view, the same with an article to substack tanks bit time.

I'm curious how you're dealing with Reddit: some of the mods don't even respond to a direct message; they just say "read the guidelines." And then their auto-mod deletes your post.

If you post the entirety of the content to Reddit itself and just leave the link in your profile, you can often get away with it

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Post by potamic »

processing wrote: post #113

clicks link to Notes “Log in to Substack” closes tab

Very precisely my course of action. As consumers, we will do well to protest and boycott services that ask you to identify yourself unnecessarily. But I had to scroll far to see this comment. The general interest here for a new product and the willingness to look past mandatory login in worrying. I feel companies have successfully normalized this and consumers don't question this much any more.

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Post by brewdad »

drusepth wrote: post #130
gimme_treefiddy wrote: post #109

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> They raised a ton of money on a high valuation, spent 25mil to make 1 mil last year and are now scrambling to raise a new crowd sourced round because they don't want to get wiped out in a down round. Sorry to get off-topic, but is there a read/book to understand funding, VCs, etc., from a holistic POV. I totally didn't expect that consequence of having to raise a crowd sourced round due to initial high valuation.

I don't have a resource for you (and will probably read whatever you get linked), but one intuitive way to think about it is that VCs/investors (and most of the startup ecosystem) are generally focused on "growth", not "performance". You can be a stable, profitable, money-making machine with 90+% margins and amazing reviews, but unless you're doubling something (users, engagement, profits, etc) every single year, you…

Why would a company like that want VC money? They can go to a bank if their numbers are that good and keep their equity for themselves.

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Post by brewdad »

linuxftw wrote: post #139
rcarr wrote: post #132

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Hard disagree with this. The majority don’t care about twitter, the only people who absolutely adore it are journalists and techies which is why it was such a big deal in the news and on forums and everyone in the real world just went about their business. The celebrities are only there for marketing and connecting with the journalists.

Which Mastodon does LeBron James use again?

I wouldn't know. I haven't watched an NBA game in over a decade.

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Post by brewdad »

fintechie wrote: post #394
Jare wrote: post #90

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- People I follow have left. Most have moved to Mastodon so I can still follow them there. It's a constant trickle but some day the weight will be higher on Mastodon's side of the balance. - Ads range from obnoxious to downright scams. I know some people used to block ad senders as a matter of routine, but I didn't, most of the time they were valid and I was happy to support the site via their ads. After Musk, most a…

To be fair, many people don't seem to have these issues you mention. For FinTwit and CT (crypto twitter) it's business as usual. Maybe it happens for other niches though.

If that's what's left on Twitter, I'm glad I no longer visit daily. If that's your thing, have at it.

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Post by Nezteb »

ghiculescu wrote: post #48

I love Substack. But apart from to mess with Twitter I really don’t understand the point of this. https://substack.com/profile/241262-casey-newton/note/c-1446... I’d a good summary. I don’t want to subscribe to hundreds of newsletters to see tweet (sorry, notes). But if you change that setup, it really is a Twitter clone with no upside to writers.

I wondered the same. This support page kind of answers the question: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/1474365194203...

The phrasing is weird though: “You’ll then start seeing more of their notes in the Home tab.”

More? Not all? Odd.

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Post by astrange »

propogandist wrote: post #595
andrei_says_ wrote: post #568

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Twitter now has daily outages where parts of it just don’t function and no one knows when we’ll experience a more serious one. It serves the daily/hourly whims and mood swings of a single person who has proven to be petty, vindictive (to his employees), and devoid of integrity. That lack of stability in my opinion accumulates. Sooner or later it will balance out the momentum.

this was the same narrative pushed when most of the tweeps was axed, but the site has been running fine and has only grown in popularity.

All the Apple ecosystem developers left, all the neo-Nazis were unbanned to add subscriber numbers, I see 1-2 ads a day because all the respectable advertisers left due to the Nazis[0], and the For You page now regularly does things like show you tweets from locked accounts, circles you're not in, and people who've blocked you.

Elon seems to have given up; he's just doing jokes now like changing his name to Harry Ballz and replying to fake news from the fake news accounts he unbanned.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-perpetuati...

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