christian holt

@christianholt
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personal account.

i do most of my medical/healthcare policy tootin' from @[email protected] but sometimes here so i should probably make the profiles look different i guess (i'll add it to the list)

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Show threadchristian holtJan 24, 2023
@darnell I always used Tweetbot to make Twitter tolerable on mobile (especially when the story broke about the native Twitter iOS app harvesting mobile data), and it seems really shortsighted to me that Twitter seemed Tweetbot such a threat that it… shut out Tweetbot completely, giving @tapbots more time to finish and roll out @ivory, which will make the mobile Mastodon experience even better for more users and further isolate lots of Very Online People from using Twitter at all.
Show threadchristian holtDec 13, 2022
@russellpierce @Popehat I feel like earlier sites were more compartmentalized - twitter really sort of broke the wall of engaging with the public and blurred the line between online persona and real life in the same way AOL brought email and chat rooms to the masses.
For me: IRC, Usenet, Listservs, Slashdot, Plastic, Metafilter, Digg, some vBulletin sites, Reddit, to name a few. Slashdot and Plastic were based on karma/reputation and used moderation/metamoderation too.
Show threadchristian holtDec 12, 2022
@Popehat Thank you for writing that - you articulated better than I could the difference between “I’m going to stop posting but check in once in a while and monitor the site” and “It was fun, but I reject what that site is now and don’t want to be associated with it”.
It’s impressive, and maybe a little scary, that the site became so prevalent that some people are unwilling to delete their old posts there. I don’t remember this phenomenon on earlier community sites when they fell out of favor.
Show threadchristian holtNov 27, 2022

@maxkennerly I understand growing pains and am trying to keep an open mind, but so far the site does not inspire confidence.

Is it for commoners to interact with journalists? Is it just generating a user base to sell it off? Is it a real “free speech” alternative that just builds in a content-agnostic platform for micropayments to trusted accounts?

I can’t tell, and that seems like an issue.

Show threadchristian holtNov 14, 2022
@emptywheel I don't know if it's common to all servers, but the Mastodon instances I'm a part of all support 2FA via TOTP for stronger login security. (TOTP = time-based authenticator app like Google Authenticator/Authy/etc.)
Show threadchristian holtNov 8, 2022

@joshtpm Someone is always the main character of Twitter - there are no “slow news days” there. And the algorithm drives content engagement, so the reaction to the reaction to the thing of the day very quickly becomes the story.

I’m looking forward to seeing viral content not because the algorithm decided I should see something with 50k likes in an hour, but because someone I followed (for good reasons) thought it was good content. I’m looking forward to having slow news days.