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clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 06:04:52 JST clarity flowers
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@jplebreton I find defensiveness very understandable in this sort of situation for a number of reasons (if I read a post where someone talks about my favorite neighborhood coffee shop like this I'd feel just as defensive) and also desperately wish we could, as a culture, learn to keep those reactions to the group chat (or at minimum, subtweets) instead acting like getting up in someone's mentions about it is a worthwhile activity

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  JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 06:04:53 JST JP
  
  LB: I don't agree with 100% of the points made in that piece but it's revealing how many peoples' first reaction is to be defensive or claim that none of those things are actually problems. https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview
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    Mastodon Exit Interview
    
    I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to BlueSky for text-centric social media.

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