Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.
The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.
Personally, I'm convinced of two things:
- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.
- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.
Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.
Potentially very useful resource here. A #searchable #directory of #fediverse accounts here. Servers that have opted in get indexed it seems (I think I read somewhere that profile details are otherwise normally quite slow to sync across federated servers?).
Anyway, onto the pile it goes!
Hi friends, kind request to #IrishTwitter but would ye mind using #CW for far-right content you share, esp transphobia and racism?
Only takes a second, but I know myself and some of us came here to escape the dogwhistles/ constant dehumanisation/ 'look at me, an 'ally' pointing this out for the nth unoriginal time for clout' of twitter.
If you're sharing it, you're amplifying. Please give us the option to choose not to see it, if you must have a hot take about it.
OK, so many of you new follows are posting/boosting kind of things I don't wanna deal with on Sunday afternoon me time.
Pretty please, with a cherry on top, add content warnings to politics, war, news stuff. My brain can't handle too much outrage of the day, and I am not here for doomscrolling.
If in doubt, CW. Please and thanks.
Dear philosophers and philosophy teachers,
You want to get in touch with colleagues from around the world on Mastodon? This page is intended to list accounts from philosophers and philosophy teachers and offers an easy method to follow multiple accounts at once.
https://eyssette.github.io/Mastodon-Philosophy/
Your account will be included only if you give consent. You want to get on the list? Or you don’t want to be on it anymore? Please contact me!
A few people have asked if they could help out financially. Yes, you can!
We're now on Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastodonie
The platform allows us to be transparent with you all in how money is used by us. We appreciate any contribution.
Whether you donate or not, we can promise we won't start charging you to be here... unlike a certain billionaire.
Christopher
Oisín McGann
Dr Shubhangi Karmakar
Marc Jones
Philosophical Psychology
Cédric Eyssette
Iris van Rooij 💭
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Mastodon.ie