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Don’t worry, everyone made a big show about how they’re moving to Mastodon remember? If only 5% of the energy used to complain about Twitter was used to improv

Don’t worry, everyone made a big show about how they’re moving to Mastodon remember? If only 5% of the energy used to complain about Twitter was used to improve the FOSS options in the market.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
The fact that people would rather complain about twitter than work on FOSS says more about FOSS than it does about the complainers.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Or perhaps it says that developers don't constitute the majority of twitter users.
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slig 3y ago
I still remember the meme that it wouldn't survive the weekend after the layoffs.
guelo 3y ago
The Mastodon transition had a chance until Elon banned it.
- lanstin 3y ago
  It is still growing steadily and is a fun place, especially for software folks. Good emacs conversations, lot of interesting and more data driven GPT conversations. Good maths community. Ok news tho not quite as good as twitter yet.
- Me1000 3y ago
  I've been a Twitter addict for over a decade. It brought a lot of value to me, helped me meet great people, and helped me get a couple jobs. Mastodon, even with fewer people, has completely replaced Twitter for me. I don't miss Twitter at all, the people who didn't migrate, from what I can tell based on my general mood while using Mastodon, just made me miserable or angry. Also, there's something quite nice about being able to start fresh on a new platform. You can shape it to the experience you want it to be, without all the inertia of your past usage.
prottog 3y ago
To paraphrase, there are social media platforms people complain about, and ones that nobody uses.
- lanstin 3y ago
  Unlike a rocket or a car, success in social media comes when no one is praising it, but all are grumbling about it. The difference might be surprising to a more literal minded type. To be sure the same is sort of true for a payments network; no one likes the money changer but they keep coming. But Elon got kicked out of that.

Don’t worry, everyone made a big show about how they’re moving to Mastodon remember? If only 5% of the energy used to complain about Twitter was used to improve the FOSS options in the market.

giraffe_lady 3y ago

The fact that people would rather complain about twitter than work on FOSS says more about FOSS than it does about the complainers.

JohnFen 3y ago
Or perhaps it says that developers don't constitute the majority of twitter users.

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slig 3y ago

I still remember the meme that it wouldn't survive the weekend after the layoffs.

guelo 3y ago

The Mastodon transition had a chance until Elon banned it.

lanstin 3y ago
It is still growing steadily and is a fun place, especially for software folks. Good emacs conversations, lot of interesting and more data driven GPT conversations. Good maths community. Ok news tho not quite as good as twitter yet.
Me1000 3y ago
I've been a Twitter addict for over a decade. It brought a lot of value to me, helped me meet great people, and helped me get a couple jobs. Mastodon, even with fewer people, has completely replaced Twitter for me. I don't miss Twitter at all, the people who didn't migrate, from what I can tell based on my general mood while using Mastodon, just made me miserable or angry. Also, there's something quite nice about being able to start fresh on a new platform. You can shape it to the experience you want it to be, without all the inertia of your past usage.

prottog 3y ago

To paraphrase, there are social media platforms people complain about, and ones that nobody uses.

lanstin 3y ago
Unlike a rocket or a car, success in social media comes when no one is praising it, but all are grumbling about it. The difference might be surprising to a more literal minded type. To be sure the same is sort of true for a payments network; no one likes the money changer but they keep coming. But Elon got kicked out of that.