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   G. Willow Wilson (gwillow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 02:33:28 JST G. Willow Wilson

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   I've been play-testing absolutely every twitter "replacement" (including Bluesky) and the general vibe I get is this: most former power-users want something exactly like Twitter but w/o the nazis and grifters. Bluesky is attempting to start conversations about federation now and users are not having it. They want a centralized platform w/a clear and consistently enforced TOS. Federation remains a very hard sell to the average person.

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     G. Willow Wilson (gwillow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 02:33:28 JST G. Willow Wilson

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     The vibe on Bluesky is classically leftist/socialist, so the bootstrappy libertarian message of federation (don't like the rules in this house? Go build your own house) is reaaaaallly rubbing people the wrong way. I'm glad those conversations are happening, frankly, bc that's an ideological barrier I don't think the apostles of federation anticipated.

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     G. Willow Wilson (gwillow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 02:33:29 JST G. Willow Wilson

     Twitter somehow gets worse week by week--right now it is an unusable swamp of right wing conspiracy theory, wave after wave of racism (there is currently an "invasion" underway at the southern border that must be stopped by lethal force) crypto bros, and bots selling high-follower accounts. Amazing really.

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