Casey NewtonThis is such an obvious point but it is so funny to me that Elon's free-speech crusade on Twitter lasted all of six weeks before he started indiscriminately banning reporters. Like what an all-time hilarious business story
I also love that things went from "I should probably figure out a Twitter alternative" on Saturday to "My Twitter account will probably be nuked for no reason" on Thursday. What a week
Rimko@caseynewton i already imagine the rest of the story:
➡️ People leave Twitter
➡️ Musk ask his employees to create bots to repost what people say on Mastodon #twittermigration
➡️ People leave Twitter
➡️ Musk ask his employees to create bots to repost what people say on Mastodon #twittermigration
Erik Ableson@Rimko @caseynewton @mmasnick From a technical point of view, the logical thing to do is for Twitter to implement an ActivityPub gateway (easier said than done) so that #Twitter becomes just another #fediverse instance, viewable from #mastodon as @[email protected]
From there we see the *very interesting* social experiment of which instances keep it open and which defederate.
From there we see the *very interesting* social experiment of which instances keep it open and which defederate.
@Rimko @caseynewton @mmasnick With that said, as with anything to do with humans communicating across internet broadcast media, the problem is not technical and the goals of the various actors conflicting across so many dimensions I can’t even begin to weight the various possible decision trees of everyone involved.
Interesting idea, maybe it's a possibility in the futur but does the main instance will allow twitter?
I mean I guess that many instances can't take on post who will have thousand of reply coming for Twitter instance, and even if they did the moderation can be a issue ?
I don't know the technicals details but it could be interesting.