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   Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:20 JST Björn Brembs

   • Cory Doctorow

   For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":

   - 500+ characters
   - post editing
   - follow hashtags
   - better s/n ratio
   - no ads

   Plus, https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li

   So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆

   @pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:

   https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

   • Cory Doctorow and Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: repeated this.
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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:23 JST Matthew Loxton

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @brembs
     It took me years to build up to 10k followers. I was a big user of Twitter, including hosting my own tweetchat on healthcare quality and safety. I had literally thousands of followers for my blogs, my short stories, and my research work.

     Then Dorsey sold that to an arsonist who promptly fucked it all up.

     I am sure as hell not investing that sort of effort again, only to have Jake Fucking Dorsey sell it again as soon as the numbers looked good. Fuck him.

     @pluralistic

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     Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:29:44 JST Björn Brembs

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Boris Barbour
     • Cian O’Donnell

     @cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

     I study learning and memory (in invertebrate animals). I guess part of it is my bewilderment as to how many triels some people need to actually learn something 🤣

     Then again, when email came, had there been only GMail initially, some people would probably still today struggle to understand what they would need a private and a work email for. 😆

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     Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:01 JST Björn Brembs

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Boris Barbour
     • Cian O’Donnell

     @cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

     Really? That's it? To me, this sounds a lot like:

     "sure, there is no water in the Namib either, but at least it's not the Sahara! Doesn't that count as an improvement? Oh and now I have a lot of thirsty people with me in the Namib, when I would have to drink water with so much fewer people outside of deserts."

     Sorry, but I can't make heads nor tail of this. My interest to go over there and interact with people whose minds operate like this is quite low.

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     Cian O’Donnell (cian@mstdn.science)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:01 JST Cian O’Donnell

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Boris Barbour

     @brembs @BorisBarbour @pluralistic fair enough - each to their own. I prefer the philosophy behind mastodon, and will continue to use it, but imo mastodon users are too purist, which is a turnoff for many. Letting perfection be the enemy of the good

     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Boris Barbour (borisbarbour@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST Boris Barbour

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @brembs @pluralistic

     No billionaires, weak lock-in, no algorithm, no ads. And editing.

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     Boris Barbour (borisbarbour@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST Boris Barbour

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @brembs @pluralistic

     Not difficult to imagine Bluesky (and Threads) going the way of Twitter - an algorithmic swing to the right - shortly before the next elections in the US. Once people have been locked in, start boiling those frogs again.

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     Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST Björn Brembs

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Boris Barbour

     @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

     Precisely.
     Why people with enough neurons to form a synapse who leave X go to BlueSky will forever remain a mystery to me.

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     Cian O’Donnell (cian@mstdn.science)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST Cian O’Donnell

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Boris Barbour

     @brembs @BorisBarbour @pluralistic I'm on Bluesky. The big benefit it has now over mastodon is the sheer number of people on it. Interactions seem good so far and real sense of community developing. Point taken that it is privately owned but by all accounts the CEO seems like a decent person. You are right that that could change in time but for now, I'm happy it's drawing people away from twitter