He says X is for freedom of speech, and it is an everything app

but, freedom can’t exist without privacy.

Everything app = monopoly = all in one

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    Your posting this on KBin which implements the twitter style fediverse API.

    Click the microblog button … Behold twitter replacement

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    One does not have to switch from something that was never used.

    Twitter has been a short form outrage machine since the beginning.

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      The interesting thing about Twitter is how it shows how a significant part of our society works. It is kind of about amplifying fame and suggesting that we should all cares about meaningless 240 character posts or what these guys think.

      That news media types love Twitter is kind of an indictment of how news works.

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        Humans have neolithic hunter-gather brains and emotional reactions, medieval civil intuitions while using tech that borders on magic.

        Twitter used to call itself the town square, and it is/was just like the square of old. Dominated by those that yelled the loudest and longest.

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      This is a wildly over generalized take.

      Twitter was also an important tool for journalists and researchers worldwide. Military targets have come from Twitter posts. It is a reflection of a huge chunk of society. You may as well call all of internet technology “just a porn box” for how wildly over generalized that statement is. The reality is your generalization comes from arrogance. “I never engaged in such frivolous behavior”. You’re here now. Yes you have and yes you do.

      Even your comment is the first cousin of outrage, it’s pure disdain. Nothing more or less, and exactly as valuable as outrage.

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      That’s not really true. When it first came out, before the ads, before the algorithm, when they embraced 3rd party apps with an open api, it was really great. It was full of techy personalities and interesting folks. Hashtags were fun to follow, live events were amazing in real time, so much more. That was before it got inundated with politics and celebrities though. I think that honeymoon phase only lasted a tiny while, then it all went downhill into the outrage machine pretty quickly. But for a quick minute there, it was glorious.

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    I’ve been on Mastodon since October last year.

    Don’t get the official app, get Tusky. Then look under “federated” and follow the people you like. You can also search for a particular topic and follow that topic instead.

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      I second following hashtags when you first start out on Mastodon. It’s probably the best method of discovery right now, since there is no algorithm feeding you constantly.

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    I’ve never understood exactly what people get out of Twitter, and don’t understand why you’d need an alternative? Why not just use Lemmy as your alternative?

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      News and updates from specific companies/projects/people.

      How people always fail to see the usefulness of the platform amazes me. There is nothing else like it for that purpose, moving elsewhere is difficult if all the accounts you are interested in are not also moving there.

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        Exactly, if you block enough and follow the right people the twitter feed is a pretty good place to get news and content. Hard to get that on mastodon since, well… no algorithm to actually show these things to you, no people to actually follow and no time to read everything chronologically.

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          Its definitely a lot worse now, but at its peak twitter algorithm worked pretty well, not that I ever used it, always did the standard chronological, but I wasn’t following 100s of accounts anyway.

          Had to setup RSS again now, but its not the same as it used to be, harder to find decent blogs with the news/updates I want that support RSS.

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        Exactly.

        Not everyone is on twitter for the political bullshit. Using banned words it’s easy to filter any political garbage. Twitter is quite useful. But I’m not there to convince or push my ideology on a bunch of polarized people. What a waste of energy.

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        News and updates from specific companies/projects/people

        So let’s say I’m interested in tech. I got my news and updates from tech oriented websites/blogs, with the added benefits of tutorials and other articles also posted there, why would I want to use twitter?

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          Then that’s great for you. Setup RSS and you are away.

          But not everyone has their own website/blog and they use twitter instead.

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    If you like Mastodon but miss that Twitter layout, I’d suggest looking up Elk. It’s a web client version which can be installed, I’m very impressed so far.

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    Mastodon and Firefish have been good alternatives for me, not to mention, they’re part of the same fediverse as KBin

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    Nothing, because I never had a use for Twitter in the first place.
    But the obvious fediverse alternative would be Mastodon. Decentralized, open source and you can use it even to communicate with kbin.

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    I tried out Mastodon last November and it was the perfect alternative for me. Connecting with more interesting people each week and I am loving the experience still to this day.

    I have several friends that still use Twitter but discord has been the solution to keep in touch. Haven’t been able to delete my accounts yet.

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        Mastodon. Seems like the logical choice, considering you’re already on the fediverse, and a lot of people already moved to Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter.

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                People, yes. Tags, not directly but if you follow kbin magazines most have related tags attached and you’ll get microblog content matching those tags in your feed.

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                Yes click on microblogs and you will see a ton of mastodon content. If you see someone ypu want to follow, you can.

                Also if you’re in a mag that has selected tags the microblog section of that mag is just whatever is posted on mastodons under those tags.

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            no censorship plz

            Sorry but that is a farcical expectation. All sites will have rules about what can and cannot be posted and will have to follow the laws of the country the server is based in.

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      I want to move to bluesky so bad but I just can’t get a damn invite. I applied via email months ago. This is their moment & I kinda feel like the invite system is holding them back. (But I do understand why it was implemented.)

      Edit: omg you guys are so sweet. I only just started using this place but I’m sold. You’re awesome!

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              It’s very… dramatic over there, and I know it’s supposed to be a beta (trust me, I know) but there seems to be a lot of missing functionality. I pop in every few days and it’s like there a new moral outrage about bluesky each time.

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                I mostly follow people in the art/illustration community so I’m not really seeing what you’re complaining about, but to be fair your complaint could be levied against basically every big online community out there right now including the fediverse.

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                  I am mostly judging by the “hot” feed, since I only follow a few people that I knew via Twitter, and to a significant degree you’re right-- there was the same kind of drama on kbin and lemmy when I joined. (I checked out threads for ~30 seconds so I can’t say about there) I don’t remember anything like that on Mastodon, but I’m sure it’s there. It seemed more rapid-fire on bluesky. Specifically there seemed to be a lot of hate against the devs on Bluesky for various reasons.

                  In any event, it’s a pretty big echo chamber right now but that’s to be expected while it’s in invite-only. I’m sure it will settle out when it opens up to the general public.

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    Akkoma, I can log into it on my iPhone 2G, my PowerMac G5 and so on, Mastodon is shit, Calckey was good until it rebranded to Firefish and now it feels like it’s owned by a corporate entity

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      The only “accelerant” I’m seeing here is the gasoline he’s splashing on Twitter before setting it ablaze and cashing in on the hefty insurance policy.