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@Linux@rebel.ar  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Since the influx of Blue Sky and Twitter users, Mastodon Dot Social had unfortunately — but temporarily — experienced a few Nazi accounts, all of which have since been removed. However, a few individuals are now wrongfully claiming that the Fediverse is no different, simply because a few bad individuals managed to make it here.

What they’re choosing to ignore is the key difference: those accounts were dealt with and rightfully removed. The fact that they weren’t caught immediately does not support the implications being made. 🙄

Haters are going to hate. 🤷

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #BlueSky #Twitter #Nazis

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@Linux@rebel.ar  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Since the influx of Blue Sky and Twitter users, Mastodon Dot Social had unfortunately — but temporarily — experienced a few Nazi accounts, all of which have since been removed. However, a few individuals are now wrongfully claiming that the Fediverse is no different, simply because a few bad individuals managed to make it here.

What they’re choosing to ignore is the key difference: those accounts were dealt with and rightfully removed. The fact that they weren’t caught immediately does not support the implications being made. 🙄

Haters are going to hate. 🤷

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #BlueSky #Twitter #Nazis

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@APBBlue@thepit.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

I should probably point out, however, that I was very motivated. I really liked #Twitter! I didn't want to give it up! But I also couldn't ethically stay there.

Really thankful for #Mastodon.

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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

My personal stance on #Bluesky is very simple, I don't interact a lot there, most of my content are due to crosspostings.

Despite not talking to people there, somehow I got +500 followers in a very short time.

I initially went there to recreate my local hub from Twitter, instead I got almost the same type of people I follow here already, but a bit more peacocking and annoying.

Twitter remains my local 9/11 news alert system. Always something happens and msm is the last to know.

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@jbz@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

For some #Bluesky is essential, they won't go back to #Twitter, and can't handle #Fedi for reasons, that may be personal or commercial reasons.

Similarly, I'll never stop using WA and FB Marketplace, since those tools are essential to my living. Telegram is the 2nd most popular choice.

No fedi/foss tool/platform/protocol will replace that stack down here anytime soon.

Network effects are too powerful.

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@APBBlue@thepit.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

I should probably point out, however, that I was very motivated. I really liked #Twitter! I didn't want to give it up! But I also couldn't ethically stay there.

Really thankful for #Mastodon.

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@noracodes@tenforward.social  ·  activity timestamp 12 months ago

We see this cycle so often.

#Bluesky #Cohost #Twitter #Tumblr #SocialMedia

Flow chart cycle. Top (start) is "popular platform gets worse", flowing to "users move to alternative centralized platform", flowing to "alternative platform becomes more popular". Here the flow splits: up to "newly popular platform is sold, takes VC, etc." which then flows up to "popular platform gets worse" again, or left to "alternative platform runs out of cash or volunteer energy" which then flows up to "users return to popular platform" and then back to "popular platform gets worse".
Flow chart cycle. Top (start) is "popular platform gets worse", flowing to "users move to alternative centralized platform", flowing to "alternative platform becomes more popular". Here the flow splits: up to "newly popular platform is sold, takes VC, etc." which then flows up to "popular platform gets worse" again, or left to "alternative platform runs out of cash or volunteer energy" which then flows up to "users return to popular platform" and then back to "popular platform gets worse".
Flow chart cycle. Top (start) is "popular platform gets worse", flowing to "users move to alternative centralized platform", flowing to "alternative platform becomes more popular". Here the flow splits: up to "newly popular platform is sold, takes VC, etc." which then flows up to "popular platform gets worse" again, or left to "alternative platform runs out of cash or volunteer energy" which then flows up to "users return to popular platform" and then back to "popular platform gets worse".
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@saskia@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

In my sisters sci comm lecture today, a slide displayed three alternatives to X.

Bluesky

Threads

Mastodon

We need to be better at supporting these young academics who are being pointed this way.

#SocialWeb #Mastodon #LeaveX #SocialMedia #SciComm #Bluesky #Threads #Twitter

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@saskia@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

In my sisters sci comm lecture today, a slide displayed three alternatives to X.

Bluesky

Threads

Mastodon

We need to be better at supporting these young academics who are being pointed this way.

#SocialWeb #Mastodon #LeaveX #SocialMedia #SciComm #Bluesky #Threads #Twitter

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@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I know many people who are aware of the importance of #FreedomRespecting software, data, and culture - and the related issues of digital sovereignty and privacy.

Paradoxically, a lot of these people also participate in, or even maintain, communities hosted on #nonfree / #proprietary / #restricted or #centralized platforms like #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Twitter, #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, #GitHub, and others.

To state the obvious, each community which chooses a proprietary platform - or bridges to it - is also giving another reason for others to be on that platform. It’s reinforcing network effect.

Conversely, if these communities chose to move to free platforms, their members would be forced to move as well. In other words, these communities have the opportunity to push for change on a massive scale.

Sure, you have to reach out to people on proprietary platforms, if that’s where the majority are. But you cannot be stopping there - you must have a strategy to move people away from proprietary platforms to free platforms.

To give the example of #OpenStreetMap -

  • I announce events on free platforms sooner
  • I remind people on proprietary platforms that they should join the free platforms to get notified earlier
  • After each event, we invite people to our #XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
  • All organizational talk takes place on our XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
  • I minimize my participation on proprietary platforms, and communities which bridge to them. The bulk of my activity happens on free platforms.
  • I have never submitted data to Mapillary or KartaView, because their clients and servers are proprietary. All my contributions go to #WikimediaCommons and #Panoramax.

So to the people who are choosing - and therefore promoting - proprietary platforms, I ask…

How do you think things are going to change, if everyone keeps choosing what is easiest for them, and keeps choosing, supporting, and promoting proprietary platforms?

What part are you playing in making things better? Or are you just going to go with the flow of the world, even if you know it to be wrong?

They don’t like answering these questions.

Instead, I invite them to find the integrity and courage to answer them.

Or, to find the integrity and courage to make the obvious change and do the obvious right thing.

People hate it when I bring this up. Sorry, but my conscience dictates that I speak up for what is right. Silence is complicity, and it gets us nowhere.

#FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource #OpenData

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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#Twitter/#X is just a completely authentic place full of real lifelong Democrats who suddenly realized Charlie Kirk was right, decided to cross the aisle and register as Republicans, and posted so in identical tweets. These are absolutely not foreign bots trying to influence US politics or increase partisan divides in our nation.

A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: 

As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history.

Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican.

Anyone else?
A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history. Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?
A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history. Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#Twitter/#X is just a completely authentic place full of real lifelong Democrats who suddenly realized Charlie Kirk was right, decided to cross the aisle and register as Republicans, and posted so in identical tweets. These are absolutely not foreign bots trying to influence US politics or increase partisan divides in our nation.

A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: 

As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history.

Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican.

Anyone else?
A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history. Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?
A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history. Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?
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@ccamara@scholar.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Based on an extensive literature review on social media migration, and empirical data drawing on a survey to #Mastodon users after #Twitter acquisition by #ElonMusk in 2022, and social media analysis, we end up proposing a new theory of eventful migration.

2/n

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@newsmast@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We asked you if you'd go back to X if it had new ownership.

Of the 812 people who responded, 67% said no.

The future of social media IS the Open Social Web 🔒

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Poll #X #Twitter #Musk #LeaveX

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@pepper0@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#Mastadon is trying to be #Twitter, but I'm not a Twitter person, and need better options to digest/navigate my incoming Feed.
So I'm thinking about some decent #activitypub based alternatives.
how Mitra social compares vs (streams) ? (summoning @silverpill & #hubzilla avatar astral projection guy, I forgot his name)
Or what should I know about #pleroma #akkoma #Misskey #lemmy , before investing in them ?

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@newsmast@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We asked you if you'd go back to X if it had new ownership.

Of the 812 people who responded, 67% said no.

The future of social media IS the Open Social Web 🔒

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Poll #X #Twitter #Musk #LeaveX

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@pepper0@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#Mastadon is trying to be #Twitter, but I'm not a Twitter person, and need better options to digest/navigate my incoming Feed.
So I'm thinking about some decent #activitypub based alternatives.
how Mitra social compares vs (streams) ? (summoning @silverpill & #hubzilla avatar astral projection guy, I forgot his name)
Or what should I know about #pleroma #akkoma #Misskey #lemmy , before investing in them ?

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@_scl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I am not sure who has not heard of #mastodonbirdui, but if not its all CSS tweaks to commemorate old #twitter vibes.

I personally love using it so much. I totally think it should be at most a choice on all mastodon instances or even default.

Go check it out if you use #LiveCSSextension on all browsers and copy and paste it into the live session window.

@rolle Thank you so much bro for everything you do with #mastodonbirdui

#oldtwittervibes #twitter #mastodonbirdui #rolle #fediverse

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@usluck@channels.im  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

https://www.usluck.com/653973/patel-you-wouldnt-know-them-they-go-to-a-different-high-school/ PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school. #Tweets #Twitter

PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
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@usluck@channels.im  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

https://www.usluck.com/653973/patel-you-wouldnt-know-them-they-go-to-a-different-high-school/ PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school. #Tweets #Twitter

PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
PATEL: You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different high school.
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