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For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":

- 500+ characters
- post editing
- follow hashtags
- better s/n ratio
- no ads

Plus, quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li

So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆

@pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:

pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic): "But I'm not on Bluesky and I don't have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will:"

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#mastodon #bluesky @Cory Doctorow
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Björn Brembs
Björn Brembs
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@mloxton
Pretty much how I feel and why I think scholarship is the best place to adopt the Fediverse, see e.g.:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…

We even started a petition to the German Rector's Conference to leave X and support Mastodon instead:

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

@Matthew Loxton
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Boris Barbour
Boris Barbour
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No billionaires, weak lock-in, no algorithm, no ads. And editing.
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Boris Barbour
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Not difficult to imagine Bluesky (and Threads) going the way of Twitter - an algorithmic swing to the right - shortly before the next elections in the US. Once people have been locked in, start boiling those frogs again.
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Björn Brembs
Björn Brembs
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@BorisBarbour
Precisely.
Why people with enough neurons to form a synapse who leave X go to BlueSky will forever remain a mystery to me.
@Boris Barbour
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Cian O’Donnell
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@BorisBarbour I'm on Bluesky. The big benefit it has now over mastodon is the sheer number of people on it. Interactions seem good so far and real sense of community developing. Point taken that it is privately owned but by all accounts the CEO seems like a decent person. You are right that that could change in time but for now, I'm happy it's drawing people away from twitter
@Boris Barbour
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Björn Brembs
Björn Brembs
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@cian @BorisBarbour
Really? That's it? To me, this sounds a lot like:

"sure, there is no water in the Namib either, but at least it's not the Sahara! Doesn't that count as an improvement? Oh and now I have a lot of thirsty people with me in the Namib, when I would have to drink water with so much fewer people outside of deserts."

Sorry, but I can't make heads nor tail of this. My interest to go over there and interact with people whose minds operate like this is quite low.

@Boris Barbour @Cian O’Donnell
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Cian O’Donnell
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@BorisBarbour fair enough - each to their own. I prefer the philosophy behind mastodon, and will continue to use it, but imo mastodon users are too purist, which is a turnoff for many. Letting perfection be the enemy of the good
@Boris Barbour
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Björn Brembs
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@cian @BorisBarbour
I study learning and memory (in invertebrate animals). I guess part of it is my bewilderment as to how many triels some people need to actually learn something 🤣

Then again, when email came, had there been only GMail initially, some people would probably still today struggle to understand what they would need a private and a work email for. 😆

@Boris Barbour @Cian O’Donnell
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