Mehdi HasanNov 18, 2022

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

Show threadSyrus
@mehdihasan Yes, and with a federated, decentralized alternative like Mastodon, they can still have a voice. Funded by the masses on federated servers in hundreds of countries around the globe.
Nov 18, 2022 at 4:41amWeb
Show threadVicki KyriakakisNov 18, 2022
@syrus @mehdihasan Engagement levels on Mastadon are also way better than Twitter
Show threadEllen KellerNov 18, 2022
@VickiKyriakakis @syrus @mehdihasan as a newbie here I’ve noticed that too. Twitter used to be a fun communicator but over the last few years became filled with trolls and hate. Here it seems responses are genuine and mostly kind.
Show threadVicki KyriakakisNov 18, 2022
@Yickyak @syrus @mehdihasan Agreed. And also for non-blue ticks (even before Elon) I think it’s value was questionable. The algorithm rendered most of us invisible and Musk has made it worse. With people driving engagement instead, my engagement rate here is way way higher. And this feels like an actual community as opposed to ppl congregating around blue ticks begging for a little of their light.
Show threadDreaNov 18, 2022
@Yickyak @VickiKyriakakis @mehdihasan @syrus YES. Biggest difference I’ve noticed here is that exchanges are always with real people. Half the interactions I get on Twitter are with trolls or bots. Biggest thing missing from Mastodon is just breaking news/local news outlet kind of stuff. I’ve used Twitter for years to find out that kind of stuff and it really needs to get brought over to a Mastodon instance so people can follow.
Show threadEdward BarrowNov 20, 2022
@andricheli @Yickyak @VickiKyriakakis @mehdihasan @syrus Think it's only a matter of not very much time before all major news orgs host their own servers.
Show threadDreaNov 20, 2022
@mehdihasan @Yickyak @ejoftheweb @VickiKyriakakis @syrus that would be great and I’m sure ultimately news outlets would prefer to have more control over their content.
Show threadflourhappyNov 19, 2022

@syrus @mehdihasan

I'm 70 yrs old . Retired writing a cookbook
Had multiple careers and one of them included working as a Mac Specialist for Microsoft when the first version of Windows came out
Both my daughter and son in are Union Organizers
I ALSO remember when 1st laser printer came out. I remember thinking that this (printer) is going to change things
As I struggled a bit this AM with Mastodon on Vivaldi ( great browser too ) had the same thought about how Mastodon will change things