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I find the general negativity towards Mastodon in HN quite intriguing, considering that: - ActivityPub is basically a two-way RSS (which is the most beloved te
by pera 4y ago
I find the general negativity towards Mastodon in HN quite intriguing, considering that:
- ActivityPub is basically a two-way RSS (which is the most beloved tech in this community)
- It's open source and you can setup your own server in one afternoon
- No sorting algorithms, no tracking, no ads
- Relatively easy to customize/hack
And to add to this, during this past month I have seen the majority of the infosec, astronomy, psychics, maths, biology, ecology communities migrating to Mastodon and for whatever reason my timeline is currently way more interesting and engaging than what Twitter offered to me.
I'm not a big social network user and I guess that's why I don't understand the sentiment in this comment section, but I do enjoy using Mastodon at the moment and I hope it stays as cool as it is now :)
- luckylion 4y agoThere's a daily thread of "Twitter is terrible, I'm moving to Mastodon" with lots of "yeah, Mastodon is great, Twitter will not exist 12 months from now" comments. What general negativity are you talking about?
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- stareatgoats 4y agoI think maybe you have fallen prey to the misconception that there is a single "HN crowd" or an "official" HN community position on anything. That may have been the case in the beginning, but as far as I can see, any position on any topic can find a sizeable following here, to a large degree depending on the title of the article, what comments gets the top spots, and how the conversation develops from there in each case. If at all anything of the sort, the HN crowd might be critical thinkers, and so will tend to upvote anything that picks any popular notion apart, laser focused on the negative aspects. Just a reflection.