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RT @Noahpinion
We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard twitter.com/FriendlyNetMan/sta

@tehjessica Also, if you check out an account on from an instance different than yours while on YOUR server, and there are few posts to see, click on their avatar or name to see them on THEIR server.

In most cases, this will work w/o you needing an acct on their server/instance.

Try it with my acct and tell me how it goes.

@robinsonmeyer Definitely post, but decide each time whether to go public or unlisted.

A #Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks.

Scince #Musk has fired essential engineers, one insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

Bugs are appearing, like weird follower numbers replies not loading and issues with the retweet feature.

#Tech

technologyreview.com/2022/11/0

I’ve been using Mastodon since Saturday, but I am going out on a limb with a prediction: Mastodon (or the Mastodon model) is the future of social media.

It has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and creating a genuine and workable public sphere.

I will develop this idea into an essay as soon as I can grab the time, hopefully today.

I've been using Mastodon since Saturday, and I'm going out on a limb here: Mastodon (or the Mastodon model) is the future of social media.

It has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and evolving into a genuine (and workable) public sphere.

I'm working on fleshing out these ideas.

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

is different, and it will stay that way.


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RT @ShortFormErnie
To explain how different Mastodon is from every other social network I point to the story of FedSearch.

has an intentionally limited search engine that only works with hashtags and usernames. Someone built a service to offer full-text search called FedSearch.
twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/sta

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

This place and the bird app 

Everyone's like Mastodon versus Twitter but it's not either-or, and I'm finding value in having both. For example, there is a vibrant community on Twitter dedicated to complaining about Mastodon, and a vibrant community on Mastodon dedicated to complaining on Twitter.

@Teri_Kanefield

Trump and Elon never had anyone counter their will throughout their lives, except their Dads, whom they feel they have surpassed.

@briannawu I have to say that I'm really enjoying the new ad-free experience on Twitter since hardly anyone seems to be promoting posts anymore.

@briannawu I half wonder if it’s even that. It increasingly strikes me that he just wants to set fire to Twitter, as some kind of ‘own the libs’ victory in his own mind. What’s the worst that could happen for him, personally? He’ll still be a multi-billionaire regardless.

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@_astronoMay

Have you mentioned this to your admin, (astrodon.social/@sebinthestars)?

@conradhackett

Fast growing body of work, and social scientists are insecure about validation.

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