Notices by Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)

@tchambers @haubles @pluralistic @Mastodon

But Bluesky’s model is even better in that regard!

Currently, in the Fediverse you lose all your posts when you’re moving

With Bluesky, you don’t

https://mastodon.social/@o_simardcasanova/113422975574382875

#Mastodon has been losing users for a long time

Many of us warned that the app was too complicated, the culture too toxic, the economic model not strong enough to sustain a fast-paced development

In just a few months, #Bluesky shipped DMs, major moderation features, third-party moderation, and will soon ship video

The last major Mastodon update was 11 *months* ago. An eternity.

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Now that #Brazil has banned Xitter, where are Brazilian people going?

Based on Google Trends, they’re mostly interested in #Bluesky, and to a (much) lesser extent, in #Threads

#Mastodon is nowhere to be found, which should immensely worry pro-Fedi people

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After the Brazilian Supreme Court suspended Xitter, #Bluesky is seing an "alt-time-high" activity

More on my thread on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/o.simardcasanova.net/post/3l2xnes4st72p

The algorithm of #Threads is such a piece of garbage.

I’m slightly interested by the most recent #OpenAI disaster.

But almost all of my feed is made of people *I don’t follow* who post about it.

It’s awfully annoying, and it reduces the informational value of the app to basically zero.

Thanks to Tusks by @bardi, I have decided to experiment a #MegaThread. Over time, I will compile great #Mastodon tools, apps, and services in a single, long thread.

I will update the Mega Thread every time I find a new tool that I find worth mentionning, either third-party or first-party.

For the first post, I want to showcase… Tusks, obviously! It’s an excellent app for macOS, iOS, and iPad to compose and update threads.

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https://thirdculture.app/tusks

#MegaThreadMastodon

Mastodon List Manager by @acbeers is an amazing tool to manage lists on #Mastodon.

It is especially useful if you have a fairly complex set of lists.

I just used it to assign all #Threads users I follow to a dedicated list. It only took me a few minutes.

https://www.mastodonlistmanager.org

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#MegaThreadMastodon

@damon @chriswho @QueenieBeanie @Gargron Also, the worst abuse I’ve ever received on social media was on Mastodon a year ago, when I said that I have a legitimate use case for quote posts.

And bear in mind that I was harassed on Twitter for years by far left activists.

These ideologues exist on Mastodon. They brigade, harass, and "criticize" based on facts that don’t exist. I don’t see why trying to appease them should be a goal in any way, shape, or form.

@damon @chriswho @QueenieBeanie @Gargron I have a bunch of names in my head. Not all of them were kicked out of Big Social. But they sure all used the ideological leftist inclination of many on Mastodon (including admins) to harass others in ways that wouldn’t have been possible on Big Social.

The #Fediverse Report by @laurenshof is a great resource to keep up with how social media is changing.

What I especially like compared to more mainstream coverage is how Laurens keeps track of less "shiny" projects. Those are a fertile ground for new innovations.

https://fediversereport.com/

Another horrendous decision by #Meta about #Threads: they will test paying users for posts based on their "performance".

This creates a strong incentive to publish low quality content. This is exactly what happened on #Twitter when the platform introduced its revenue sharing system: since then, the platform has been overwhelmed by grifters who publish the most horrendous posts to go viral.

Another sign that Meta is completely out of its depth when it comes to Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@mattnavarra/post/C5T0IVFo9I9

The ratio the good people of Threads is giving to Marco Rubio is so hard that it's probably illegal in several countries.

Whatever the differences between #Mastodon, #Bluesky or #Threads, users on all three platforms have the same rejection of the far right and its disgusting nonsense. I love that.

(As usual, reply guys and antisocial behavior will receive an instant-block.)

@laurenshof @deadsuperhero @atomicpoet @fediforum @fediversenews Seconding this! It feels we have reached some sort of escape velocity threshold.

In retrospect, Flipboard and WordPress federating was where things began to take a very different direction: it’s not microblogging anymore, and it’s not small platforms or projects either.

Something radically different is coming, it’s so cool to witness this change in real time!

@tchambers @fediversenews @spreadmastodon I like how concrete this feels. It’s the same strategy Bluesky has been using, successfully in my opinion: show end users the concrete benefits of decentralization, instead of making decentralization a feature in itself.

Most people don’t care.

But when you give them an opportunity to choose their algorithmic feeds, their moderation, or to reach a larger ecosystem, the theoretical benefits become very real.

Fascinating times we are in!

@dansup @hello Hidden replies are notoriously deficient on Threads, they bring a ton of false positive. I’m not surprised it was a glitch.

I’m also glad to learn your relationship with Meta is good! There is a lot of (legitimate) skepticism and caution about them on the Fediverse. It’s important to know they behave as good citizens.

@mike @damon @Flipboard @J12t I’m all on board with the Fediverse and its philosophy. But these problems can severely hamper its growth, hence why I think they need to be discussed and addressed.

Of course, those are just suggestions!

@mike @damon @Flipboard @J12t It’s a great podcast, every episode has been fascinating to listen!

Is there any plan to run an episode, or even several, on some of the issues that are documented within the Fediverse? In particular, the racism that pushed many Black users out of the platform, the reply guy problem (I’m considering stopping publishing on Mastodon because of that), or the many moral panics targeted at projects a vocal, but toxic, minority doesn’t understand?

@springcomp J’ai tenté les plus petites instances. Plus jamais. En plus d’avoir reçu la pire vague de harcèlement de toute ma vie sur les réseaux sociaux sur l’une d’elle, j’ai également vu ce que c’était d’avoir une modération indigente.

@springcomp Ni Threads, ni Bluesky, n’ont ces comportements toxiques.

Ils sont tellement prévalents sur Mastodon que l’application Android tente des expérimentations pour les endiguer.

Ça n’est pas strictement un problème de comportement. C’est un problème de normes sociales toxiques, que l’on a laissé s’ankyloser ici exactement comme sur Twitter. Elles seront très dures à défaire.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/22/mastodon-tackles-the-problem-of-reply-guys-with-its-latest-feature/

@springcomp Je suppose que ce qu’il va se passer, c’est que je vais plus ou moins laisser ce compte à l’abandon. J’y reprendrai mes publications, et ça sera tout.

Et je publierai du contenu original sur Bluesky, et possiblement sur Threads.

C’est d’ailleurs intéressant que la quasi-totalité des réponses que je reçois ne soient pas un questionnement sur mon expérience négative, mais des « tu n’as qu’à dégager » à la pelle.

Ça illustre bien à quel point les normes toxiques sont ancrées.