Paco HopeDec 17, 2022

I know people are suffering with the demise of twitter. I don’t want to minimise their pain. But this is a life lesson for you young folks. Everything is MySpace and Napster. Everything is AOL and GeoCities. Everything is a Zune and an Amazon Fire Phone.

If it’s the first platform you counted on that died and let you down, it’s not the last.

Show threadToddZ has moved to [email protected]Dec 17, 2022
@paco This is only true when you choose platforms that are owned by single companies or individuals. Use distributed/federated solutions and they last. Like html/web, email etc.
Show threadCJ Moose ⚒️🌋🦉🍻⛺
@toddzim33 @paco how do you get an email address without owning a domain or using someone else’s domain? I've lost access to dozens of email addresses.
Dec 17, 2022 at 5:19amMastodon for iOS
Show threadToddZ has moved to [email protected]Dec 17, 2022
@cjmoose @paco Right, but you didn't lose access to EMAIL entirely. You just changed hosts and moved on.
Show threadCJ Moose ⚒️🌋🦉🍻⛺Dec 17, 2022
@toddzim33 @paco I mean, you have to find all your contacts all over again. And your contacts lose you. You lose your email history, etc.
Show threadToddZ has moved to [email protected]Dec 17, 2022
@cjmoose @paco I think that's my point. We should be responsible/in charge of our data (download your emails/contacts if you want them) and be allowed to move to any host we want. Hell, Mastodon has a pretty clean 'move accounts' process... what more do you want?
Show threadCJ Moose ⚒️🌋🦉🍻⛺Dec 17, 2022
@toddzim33 @paco I'm not criticizing mastodon at all. What I'm saying is that me moving from Twitter to Mastodon is, IMO, very similar to losing my old email addresses. I've got my twitter history in a file, just like all my downloaded emails. I've still lost touch with tons of people due to both.
Show threadToddZ has moved to [email protected]Dec 17, 2022
@cjmoose @paco ya, totally fair. the more we can get our own data in open formats and protocols the easier it becomes...