Shoq 🌿Jan 11, 2023

The quibbles of Twitter users are understandable. Anything new feels inferior because actions & habits taken for granted now need thought—or may take some time for developers to deliver. (It was years before Twitter's features became what we now recall.)

Despite this, I feel it's
politically, culturally, and morally negligent (and repugnant) to not consider the long term reward vs short term gratification choice we all face.

Our planet *needs* a free and open communications space. Full stop.

Show threadShoq 🌿Jan 11, 2023

With the help of a complicit media star system, to which tech journalism was not immune, America let silicon valley bros and billionaires lead us down a road to social media purgatory. It was all new, so we just took what we were offered by a few market winners. But now, thanks to Elmo, Zuck and others, we know better. So let's not make the same mistakes all over again, now that we have a perfectly workable (if still evolving) Fediverse solution.

Evolution can be fun! Ask a former ape!

Show threadBob
@shoq
Yes, okay but where is it we are heading with this evolution? I checked out Gethub the other day. I'm not going to figure out were things are heading, without a map, using gethub . Hashtags are mostly an endless pile of dooty. I haven't seen a word about application requirements. I follow #twittermigration and I'll just leave it there. Open source doesn't mean much if it isn't accessible.
Jan 11, 2023 at 5:23pmWeb
Show threadShoq 🌿Jan 11, 2023
@Bobdoodle No argument from me. Open source has always had an irrational exuberance about it, but this is the first time it really could impact the broad public interest in a big way. The more we support it, the faster it will evolve and we can better exploit its advantages, and minimize its liabilities.
Show threadBobJan 11, 2023
@shoq
I am doing what I can to support Mastodon. I don't know what the fediverse is yet but I am using Fedilab via Samsung's Dex. For most users it comes down to the user's application interface. With Mastodon, there are a lot of choices for users to research. Most users are are not going to do that. And there are prolly a lot of developers working on stove pipes using requirements coming straight out of their own minds. I don't know for certain, but I don't see any discussion of building applications that will draw and keep users. #twittermigration