Mastodon isn't twitter. Trying to turn it into Twitter probably isn't a great idea. But shifting that ideal from one mega community to smaller ones that can all talk to each other is probably for the best.
But I'm an engineer, I can't explain this shit, lol.
Mastodon is software, created by engineers. Trying to phrase those software ideals to a normal population doesn't really work and they don't really need to care? Like, when you talk about Discord, people get the idea of joining a "discord" to join a community. That's basically what Mastodon is: Interest based community social network.
Trying to explain it like Twitter leads to "federation" and all that shit that leads to madness.
IMO I think the hangup people have when talking about Mastodon v. Twitter is that Mastodon is software, and Twitter is a service. So when explaining what Mastodon is to "normal" (Non devs) leads to talking about Federation and other things that they don't need to know nor care about.
When you explain Twitter, you're explaining a service that you sign up for. "Sign up, post, done".
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/
I've been using Arc (https://arc.net) for a few weeks now, and although I think their claims are a bit overblown, it's not bad.
My biggest problem is it only supports English. You can't even change the language headers that are sent, meaning all websites report as English by default, despite my computer OS being set to Japanese.
Which makes these release notes on "One Click Google Meet" seem a bit hollow.
@Migueldeicaza Yeah, that's the flaw on having a twitter/mastodon bridge.
The good news is that probably won't be needed for much longer.
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RT @elonmusk
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
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