@ajsadauskas @fediverse @donmelton Twitter sounds too confusing. How do you even view a toot there without it getting absorbed into some advertising scheme? Maybe I’ll try again when they get their act together.
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I will never not boost this whenever I come across this post, it's so good. And read it again in full measure for the enjoyment of it. Thank you!
@ajsadauskas @fediverse The problem with Twitter only having one instance also is: Imagine if some douchebag bought it and tried running it into the ground by inviting all the fashs back in, replacing replacing the Twitter logo with cryptocurrency memes and other weird bs. You couldn't even switch to another instance if a random weirdo like that took over …
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I don’t know if the bad parts of twitter have gotten any worse, but the good parts have certainly gotten worse. It’s just not as good for breaking stories as it once was.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse while amusing in itself, I think that framing things this way is important too, because it lets us shed the veneer that the status quo is the thing people need to match before any new ideas are allowed to be examined
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Most of the people I know who use Twitter try it for a short time and tend to bounce off it. I can't see it gaining enough critical mass to be relevant.
Also, since my work workplace expect me to be on it, it kind of has that LinkedIn vibe where you're not really supposed to have fun there, but just talk about work based topics.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse The ability to "edit" is something Twitter reserves to paying customers. Musk is never one to resist picking up a dime that drops on the pavement...
Thanks for editing this, it gave me a good chuckle when it popped up on my feed this morning.
But Twitter is improving! It already copied several great features from Mastodon, like no italics and bold markup, "tweets" in reverse chrono order, full-size image previews instead of thumbnails (and always at the end), removed the "dislike" button...
It even went one better than Mastodon and limited tweets to 250 chars instead of 500.
Another Mastodon feature that Twitter still lacks is showing the same boosted toot, in full, every time someone boosts it.
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse one killer feature is a recommendation algorithm... or it was... it seems that the owner pulled the plug this week or last week to save server costs, because now my Twitter homepage stopped having anyone I wasn't following. Very bad business decision by the owners. Concerning. !
@ajsadauskas @fediverse fun read but when someone toots and calls tweets as silly... 😛
just kidding, don;t wanna get trampled. also shouldn't they be "barking" now with the new logo that they got recently. i only know form what someone had posted here.
"barking up the wrong post" would be a common there probably
@ajsadauskas @fediverse as someone who’s been on both for a little while (been on mast less time) I got a laugh at this!
It was fun seeing all the confusion and pushback on Hacker News by all those our-thing-is-bigger #birdsite :birdsite: folks, when reading your great toot. Oh, and completely missing the satire, of course.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I originally heard of Mastodon through a friend. They were talking about how they were reluctant to join because a trusted friend informed them there was a lot of rampant racism and bigotry. However, another person replied to their tweet that Mastodon is decentralized, so those instances of bigotry were not indicative of the platform as a whole. I joined the Project Mushroom server and have enjoyed Mastodon since.
Mastodon and Twitter are very different beasts. Neither fills the other's niche. I used Twitter for one thing, and that one thing is completely impossible on Mastodon.
(People see a new, strange, but exciting sport on television that they'd not previously heard of, and tweet about it. I loved searching those tweets, and occasionally interacting with the people. Mastodon does not allow this, for no good reason.)
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Maybe someone could buy it in a fit of affluenza-induced mania, and then run around the datacenter kicking things?
They call their toots Tweets but then have a dog as an emblem, Now Mastodon having a dog tooting would work well, My dog toots all the time.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I respond to all Twitter ads saying that the security on Twitter is now so poor I have to assume all ads are fraudulent
@ajsadauskas @fediverse legitimately never enjoyed Twitter or saw the appeal - Mastodon immediately made sense to me.
@valsombra @ajsadauskas @fediverse I am totally on the same page. I have posted more and read more info on mastadon in 6 months than I did the 8 plus years on Twitter.
Well saideth, 💬
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse From day 1, I always said that Twitter had twits, not tweets. In 15 years, nothing has changed my opinion in that regard.
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse I think i am still having a problem with you saying twitter being a replacement for Mastodon. Twitter started in 2000 and Mastodon started in 2016. What I think you are saying is that Twitter needs to add more features to catch up to Mastodon.
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