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Let's get them over to Mastodon! #fediverse (yes I'm going all in)

[–] 312@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I truly don't understand why people keep trying to use Twitter despite open and obvious changes designed to be hostile to users. Not to mention the reliability issues that continue to crop up as a result of axing nearly your entire engineering staff.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Some people can't figure out Mastodon, but I don't think enough of the people who can't figure out mastodon are realizing that nothing would be better than twitter. And I mean literally just not doing social media anymore would be a marked improvement over using twitter

[–] Polo421@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Imo, there was no greater news aggregator than 3rd party Twitter apps. I will miss them very much. A couple of my favorite sources are not on Mastodon (yet?) and the 3rd party apps aren't up to snuff yet. Hopefully we get there one day.

[–] azureeight@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a drug. it's also why a lot of people stay in bad relationships (friends/romantic/family/etc)

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 1 year ago

We need the big media companies to leave twitter - it seems almost every business and public figure that people actually want to follow has a Twitter account. This is especially true for media talents and talent agencies like hololive, and the YouTube/streaming space as a whole.

Once they finally realise that it makes sense to create a mastodon account it might actually push another wave over to mastodon.

I wouldn be surprised if talent agencies like vshojo and hololive eventually created their own mastodon or lemmy instances for their talents to have an account and community on - it seems the best way to validate and verify real vs fake talents. As well as moderate to their own standard.

People will be able to ask Is it @user@talent.agency? Yes it is, therefore they must be the real one.

[–] Helluin@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

appareantly theyre agressively rate limiting: 300 posts per day for new accounts, 600 for unverified, 6000 for verified

I'm overdosing on schadenfreude right now.

[–] ekZeno@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

I was able to login 🤷‍♂️

[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Some people cannot seem to even be able to login.

[–] twilightmeow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I have to say the silver lining in all of this is that decentralized forms of community building are on the rise, and this is a good thing. I don't think it's healthy to centralize all data and power in the hands of private companies that can decide to, oh you know, kill api access etc.

[–] TwoGems@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Have they tried not using that garbage heap?

[–] hmrp@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 year ago

Good! It's time to change to something with better potential than twatter

[–] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The "scraping" they are claiming may be coming from inside the house, so to speak, as it appears they are DDoSing themselves.

[–] Thintalle@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is happening to my internet?! ): It's all going downhill.

[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's like having most of the content and communication being hosted by few corporations running on the faith of investors and struggling to realize the expected profits was a bad thing.

[–] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Would it be possible to have you fediverse username connected to the blockchain so you could use it to associate with an instance? And if that instance closed, say, you could simply connect your blockchain based account identity to another instance?

[–] GeneralRetreat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Why would blockchain be necessary to do that? Honestly, 99% of the time blockchain is just a highly inefficient buzzword.

Usually there are better ways to achieve the same outcome, with the added bonus of not automatically attracting a cavalcade of Web3 con-artists and grifters.

[–] keardap@lemmy.selfhost.quest 2 points 1 year ago

Why would you need blockchain for that?

[–] Soki@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Why not use good old signatures for that?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's time to abandon Twitter to the fascists and bots.

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