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Talking about Mastodon in terms of it being "the new Twitter" is the wrong framing. Twitter is not replicable. It was a central chokepoint for a lot of journal
by kmeisthax 3y ago
Talking about Mastodon in terms of it being "the new Twitter" is the wrong framing.
Twitter is not replicable. It was a central chokepoint for a lot of journalists and programmers, but that Twitter is gone. Nothing will replace it. In fact, given how poorly that place was run (even, arguably, before Musk shat on it), I don't think anything should.
Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky will all occupy their own corners of the social networking space. If they all adopt ActivityPub then they sort-of merge together, depending on how the instance operators decide they want that interoperability to happen.
(FWIW, a lot of Mastodon instance operators have already said "hell no" to Threads interop.)
- agumonkey 3y agoI don't know how to think about all this.. twitter centralization was a sizable enough benefit to me. Maybe I'm not understanding or approaching mastodon right but I'm never sure I'm at the right place or if I see everything I should see. Triggers some virtual anxiety / fomo somehow.
- _thisdot 3y agoEven more important distinction is that "Mastodon" is not a Twitter alternative, rather a framework that lets you build a twitter-like space. Instances have twitter-like feature set )p. It's totally up to the individual instance managers to decide which direction to take.