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Opening minds with an #openweb ethic and #opensource tools. Learning Experience Designer, musician, dad. Bearing witness to peoples' myriad efforts to get free and help others thrive here and now. #EvolveAuthoring #Renoise #CreativeCommons #SonicPi #videoeditor #DaVinciResolve #Wordpress #musicproduction #homerecording #songwriter
Now at @The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
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I'd really like to see an instance for #learningdesign peeps with a cool handle like @sapience.social or @learning.social.
Coming from academia to corporate #instructionaldesign, academics are well-represented here on Mastodon but outside the ivory tower there are diverse learning professionals in different contexts that I like to hear from too.
I read on @FediTips that being on a smaller #Mastodon server is better. Been here on mastodon.social for years, but just started accounts at some smaller servers. Just started @tedcurran because I follow the #indieweb ethos, but mostly as a consumer/practitioner rather than a tech dev. Also have @tedcurran for #BayArea life. @[email protected] because @Vivaldi rules. Will probably wait to integrate my identities until the mass migration is complete and more diverse #servers reflect my interests.
Downes 🍁If you're curious, see today's special issue of OLDaily on Mastodon (posts mostly from over the weekend and late last week). https://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
"The bloodletting has been the worst at companies that invested big in this nebulous concept of #Web3. Companies that sink millions into #crypto, #blockchain, and decentralized #metaverse have pretty much lost their shirts lately." https://sfist.com/2022/11/10/throwback-thursday-the-last-big-tech-layoff-bloodbath-the-dot-com-bust-of-2000-2001/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds
Throwback Thursday: Remembering the Last Big Tech Layoff Bloodbath, the Dot-Com Bust of 2000-2001
As hundreds or even thousands of tech layoffs again become everyday news this week, we look back to the dot-bomb implosion of 22 years ago, when the Bay Area became a graveyard of f*cked companies.
Hi @feditips -- do you know if there are any local Earthquake bots similar to https://twitter.com/earthquakesSF ?
This seems to be an area that's lacking on #Mastodon, making it less valuable than Twitter for realtime, hyperlocal #news.
Curious how much of that vacuum is an inherent weakness of the platform vs. how much is just that most people and bots have not moved over here yet.
