David Thomson

@mdavidthomson
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Writer and director. Mainly reading occasionally posting on space, tech, politics and movies.
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David ThomsonApr 29, 2023
Show threadSloanLAApr 29, 2023
@mmasnick Found it, thanks! For anyone else looking: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/
Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

Techdirt
David ThomsonJan 30, 2023
Ivory by Tapbots Jan 28, 2023

Hello Friends,

Wanted to make a note that our current roadmap is on our website: https://tapbots.com/ivory/#roadmap

We are a small company of 3 people and only 1 of us replies on this account. Between all the emails and messages here, it's hard to always answer everyone, but we do our best. If your question doesn't get answered here, it's not because we don't care. It's just impossible to always be around to answer everyone. Feel free to send us an email if you don’t get a response here. Thank you! 🙂

Ivory for iOS

A Mastodon app based on the award-winning Twitter app for iOS.

David ThomsonJan 29, 2023
Stu MaschwitzJan 24, 2023
Thanks to @ivory, this joint feels a lot more real.
David ThomsonJan 25, 2023

@ivory Enjoying the app and I’m sure you are swamped by feature requests and to do’s but…

So the list implementation is great, but currently, if I add someone I don’t follow, it adds them to the list then when I save, it gives an error.

It would be great if the app had an option to auto follow someone when you add them to a list, if you are not following them already. (And similarly ask to unfollow if you delete them from the list).

David ThomsonJan 25, 2023
Paul KrugmanJan 24, 2023
Olivier and I are on the same page. Once inflation is tamed — which seems to be happening surprisingly fast — we'll be back in an era of low rates and excess savings https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/secular-stagnation-not-over
Secular stagnation is not over

Is secular stagnation over? I do not think so. Today’s inflation will not last, but I believe that low rates will.

PIIE
David ThomsonJan 25, 2023

@ivory as a longtime tweetbot user Ivory is great. It’s is by far the best client for Mastodon I’ve used. Mercury was good but Ivory makes the whole experience much better. Definately worth the subscription.

The one thing I’d say… I think Ivory could help drive migration to mastodon if the app just had an option of starting an account on a default instance. For someone new coming from Twitter, to be faced with picking an instance when you don’t know anything or why you have to is off putting.