Bastian AllgeierNov 8, 2022

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Show threadJoão SantosNov 8, 2022
@bastianallgeier Toots via SMS would be a killer feature for instances targeting places with bad mobile internet.
Show threadBastian AllgeierNov 8, 2022
@jmcs never thought about it that way. You are totally right.
Show threadDan LovejoyNov 8, 2022
@bastianallgeier @jmcs Unfortunately, SMSes still cost a little bit, even at huge scale, so you’d have to have some sort of revenue model to pay for them.
Show threadJoão Santos
@danlovejoy @bastianallgeier receiving SMS is included on plenty of VOIP/SIP services, so it would "just" be a matter of having a service to bridge SIP to Mastodon. Of course this would one way, but helpful in general if you just want to send live updates from a zone without mobile internet.
Nov 8, 2022 at 2:59pmWeb
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@jmcs
@danlovejoy @bastianallgeier

There are bridges which send toots vía email. Combined with DeltaChat they are a good alternative for poorly connected places