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I started using Mastodon a few months ago, "just to see", and found great people to interact to there. And these days I'm using Twitter less and less. Looking
by kemenaran 9y ago
I started using Mastodon a few months ago, "just to see", and found great people to interact to there. And these days I'm using Twitter less and less.
Looking back, I feel like the short-messages limit is fueling flaming statements rather than good discussions. I also see how constant enabled-by-default notifications and dark patterns made me addicted to new tweets ; on Mastodon I feel less pressure to keep up with the feed constantly.
Also, the project grew from a few to 100+ contributors in a few weeks, and apparently managed this transition quite smoothly. Development is ongoing at a steady pace, including new features and major architectural changes. Congrats to the team and contributors!
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoDefinitely looking forward to Twitter's 280 change to help me communicate better with people there (it was always the reason I preferred G+, for instance, over Twitter), but it would overall be preferred if more people just used Mastodon.
- nategri 9y agoPersonally, I prefer Google Buzz
- ChristianBundy 9y agoMastodon's big issue is that it isn't fully decentralized. I don't want to give Twitter all of my trust, but I also don't want to put all my trust into some random server just because it isn't Twitter. For fully decentralized social networking (online or off-grid) I recommend: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
- mi100hael 9y agoYou can run your own server.
- e1ven 9y agoCan you help me understand what you mean by "isn't fully decentralized"? If you're running your own server, my understanding it's trusted by default by most servers - There is a blacklist of untrusted federation servers, rather than a whitelist? In what way would you prefer it to be setup? More of a p2p model, rather than a federated model?
- xena 9y agoI think by "fully decentralized" he means "everyone has to run their own node"
- justinjlynn 9y agoFederation is a perfectly valid type of decentralised system. Their complaint is likely that it isn't a fully peer to peer system.
- wruza 9y agoWhat sort of trust it is, can you expand?
- listic 9y agoLooking back, I feel like the short-messages limit is fueling flaming statements rather than good discussions Quite rarely, also condensed pieces of art: https://twitter.com/quietpinetrees https://twitter.com/quietpinetrees
- kbenson 9y agoWow, some of those are very good.
- viraptor 9y agoSome more: https://twitter.com/MicroSFF https://twitter.com/MicroSFF https://twitter.com/ASmallFiction https://twitter.com/ASmallFiction
- arxpoetica 9y agohttps://twitter.com/americanyak https://twitter.com/americanyak