Scott Jenson3d ago

Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

Show threadScott Jenson2d ago
OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear:
1. I took a complex point and made it poorly
2. My goal was to ask for more inclusiveness
3. I am sickened by what happend to BlackTwitter and I don't want it recur
4. But I can't speak for BlackTwitter nor should I
5. I apologize to black mastodon users for making such a poor comparison
6. I'm not endorsing "AI Slop" they were a foil to make my point
7. I'm certainly NOT trying to compare AI bros to Black twitter (but, as I said, I can see how people made that connection. I'm trying to correct that here)
Show threadAzuaron
@scottjenson Threads is Mastodon, so...
Apr 7 at 2:16amWeb
Show threadJuno Jove2d ago
@Azuaron @scottjenson wait, threads is mastodon?!?!
Show threadAzuaron1d ago
@jupiter @scottjenson Yeah, it was a whole thing when Threads came about, since a ton of people are here specifically because fuck Facebook/Meta. Tons of Mastodon instances defederated Threads preemptively. But, that doesn't make Threads any less Mastodon.
Show threadnoodlejetski 1d ago
@jupiter @Azuaron @scottjenson it's not. it can federate with Fediverse (if not blocked by fedi instances), but it's a separate thing, which as far as I know isn't based on Mastodon's code. Truth Social and Gab are more Mastodon than Threads.