@lirontocker That's an apt distinction!

I do see the value of an algorithmic timeline - filtered, sorted, categorized, and yes, ordered. As I follow more people to gain more insights and perspectives, that is unavoidably required.

But it should be in my service, under my control, transparent (Open Source), and not to drive engagement for advertisers.

THE QUESTION every journalist should be asking right now is why the hell should ordinary workers have to pay to fill a massive £30bn black hole blown in the country’s finances by the Conservative Governments gross incompetence, negligence & ineptitude!!

https://youtu.be/WrDtNQjZMAE

I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

It searches for the patterns @[email protected], [email protected] and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.

New version: https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.