toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Nov 15:33
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Wow, look! A new place that controls critical flow of information, managed by for profit venture capital! How Wholesome😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter (which personally I couldn’t get into even in its heyday).
Telorand@reddthat.com
on 15 Nov 16:19
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Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter
And that’s honestly a good thing. We don’t need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.
Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it’s probably lost its way.
The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it’s hard for anything to go viral and you can’t easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn’t have a problem with the old version.
I’d be happy enough if it just ended up replicating pre-Musk twitter - that was a cool website! And in practice as you say with the federated decentralized aspect and a core userbase of anti-fascists it will likely be even better.
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Wow, look! A new place that controls critical flow of information, managed by for profit venture capital! How Wholesome😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
The peasant masses were hoodwinked once again! They keep letting the rich mess with their lives without learning much.
No need to migrate to a decentralized platform like Mastodon at all!
Now now, how would private capital profit off of a FOSS social network? Won’t someone think of the investors?
Amazing, we have so much choice now. /s
I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter (which personally I couldn’t get into even in its heyday).
And that’s honestly a good thing. We don’t need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.
Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it’s probably lost its way.
And honestly it’s better than Twitter ever was, for the users at least.
The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it’s hard for anything to go viral and you can’t easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn’t have a problem with the old version.
Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.
I’d be happy enough if it just ended up replicating pre-Musk twitter - that was a cool website! And in practice as you say with the federated decentralized aspect and a core userbase of anti-fascists it will likely be even better.
No more microblog for me.
No shit? It’s run by ex-Twitter people, and Musk has brought a flamethrower to TwitterX.
…that’s a good thing?
Yeah X is a big downgrade
Both are shit. The difference is the flavor.