@kiriappeee@lohang I don't think this is a culture of the 'verse as much as it is of mastodon/Eugene. Yes Mastodon is by far the largest platform but I'm not certain if that's because more users prefer such design decisions, or if they didn't realize there were other options to stay connected with Friends, particularly during the #TwitterMigration. If people don't want their posts serachable, they could set their privacy to "friends only" but I don't know if Mastodon has that option either.
Fediverse Searches :fediverse: - a reminder to everyone that there's already *at least* a couple of powerful search engines out there in the wider #Fediverse that are far more powerful than Mastodon's hashtag based search. Both I am aware of seem to be *currently* assuming Public-posts are opt-IN by default
While I'm communicating this for my own #trans :flag_transgender: community it applies to us ALL so if in doubt, *do* consider using "Followers only" and "Unlisted" posts more on a case-by-case basis to restrict access on what *can* be widely indexed and searched as both of these seem to honour this. For me it's been an awareness-check, no more no less
2. Calckey => discussions on this are in Codeberg - ref at least 9397 and 10007
Please don't beat me up on what *already* exists technically and may be in refinement / development. I simply want to raise awareness for everyone's wider online safety
If this is true, if Musk actually does this, then this would be Musk's stupidest idea ever. The headline seriously understates the impact. It will end Twitter.
"... in a move that nobody seemed to ask for, Twitter will apparently let users call anyone on the app, whether you follow them or not."
When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.
I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration
Just in case some of you blessedly haven't seen any updates on this, #ElonMusk continues to be an overlordly conspicuously dimwitted bag of pallid shit who not only doesn't understand basic things about how the world and society work because he's a cloistered incurious twat but also pissed off some of his own toadying apostles by being a giant mewling mincing richboibaby regarding the existence of digital communications media other than the one he bought to make it more conducive for neo-Nazis to digitally fellate him as a reward for being white and born wealthy.
“Twitter reminds me a bit of the oil industry. This old dominating force still has the money and the power to set the rules while fearing new disruptive developments like innovation in renewable energy. Substack is new, rapidly growing, constantly innovating, and well-managed.”
@eshep I guess that @Jorge Stolfi was a) told that #Mastodon is the #Fediverse and b) given mas.to as the URL to go to instead of joinmastodon.org.
So whoever guided him to Mastodon either didn't know better themselves or wanted to make it as easy for newcomers as possible, short-cutting the instance selection process by directing them immediately to one instance and not even telling them that such a thing as instances exist.
It happened on Twitter all the time, also because there's only so much you can explain in 280 characters. That's why you have people who joined in November during the #TwitterMigration, who didn't find out about instances and Mastodon's decentral nature until February, and who didn't find out that there's more to the Fediverse than only Mastodon until March.
They were guided by tweets such as go to mastodon its literally twitter without musk #^https://mastodon.social or in this case go to mastodon its literally twitter without musk #^https://mas.to