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I had to accept recently that anything trying to emulate Twitter will suffer from the same problems. I wrote about it: https://kyefox.com/2020/09/17/mastodon-sh
by Kye 6y ago
I had to accept recently that anything trying to emulate Twitter will suffer from the same problems. I wrote about it: https://kyefox.com/2020/09/17/mastodon-shows-its-stripes/ https://kyefox.com/2020/09/17/mastodon-shows-its-stripes/
Since then, my favorite instance was killed by a bunch of irony-poisoned instances ganging up on it to convince others it was a toxic hell (projection!) and defederate from it. The instance was basically dead within a week as people migrated off to avoid losing contact with friends on the fediverse.
https://twitter.com/DamienGranz/status/1314710715635204103 https://twitter.com/DamienGranz/status/1314710715635204103
It's not much different from people ganging up on someone on Twitter to report them into an automated suspension.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWait, I thought that post length was NOT limited on Mastodon ? (That's why I never used Twitter - 140 characters is just too short - I'm not a poet !)
- Kye 6y agoThe default is 500 characters. Some compatible implementations of ActivityPub have longer limits. Mastodon hides longer posts from those instances behind a link to open the toot[1] and show the whole thing. [1] Instances choose how to render things delivered over ActivityPub. So (for example) Mastodon would render a write.as post as a toot, while write.as might render replies to that toot as comments on a blog post.
- golemotron 6y agoYou might like this. Same problem identified before big social: https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...
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