rachel on 24/4/2023 at 10:11
Twitter has become a full-blown Nazi bar and they're not even hiding it. Latest stunt was removing (
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/19/tech/twitter-hateful-conduct-policy-transgender-protections/index.html) transgender protection from their hateful conduct policy, which, okay, never worked in the first place because it's Twitter, but now it's just officially open season.
I get that you got history and networks and stuff and it's hard to leave all that behind, I understand I truly do (I left behind a wonderful writing community and many LGBTQIA+ contacts), but I beg you to consider the harm this site does and how your continued use of it, while not malicious in itself, contributes to vindicating hateful conduct and harassment that affects many minorities.
I'm begging you. Stop using Twitter. Quit that shithole.
demagogue on 24/4/2023 at 14:49
Quote Posted by henke
No, you don't need to make accounts on every server, one is enough. You can follow folks on other servers just fine, although when you first look up someone on another server up it'll say "Older posts from other servers are not displayed". You'll start seeing their posts as they come out once you're following tho.
Then again some servers have different interfaces and maybe even different rules, and I've heard some servers are just flat out blocked by other servers in which case yeah you probably would have to make a separate account on another server. Where did you sign up, dema? Again, I'd say mastodon.social is probably the best place unless you've got a niche interest you're really into. Yeah, it's definitely more confusing than twitter.
Yes I've been on Mastodon.social for a while now under @Cade_Mosley, but I couldn't log into gamedev.place with that account and it told me I needed to make a new one for it. But I made it now anyway under the same name anyway and followed you and a few others I know from your follow list.
For everyone else, here are my two accounts so far then: (
https://mastodon.social/@Cade_Mosley) social and (
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Cade_Mosley) gamedev.
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And I just signed up on masto last year so you're definitely not seeing one of my posts for 2019.
You mean I followed the wrong @henke? XD
I probably just searched the name and added it unprompted.
I should have known your nick is always only lowercase....
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https://i.ibb.co/9pB26km/Image2.jpgEdit: For reference...
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https://i.ibb.co/CmHkLV8/Image3.jpghenke on 24/4/2023 at 16:36
That Henke is an IMPOSTOR!
I followed both of your accounts. Tho when I searched for Cade_Mosley I just saw your gamedev account. Had to type "@Cade_Mosley@mastodon.social" to see the other one. Hmm... yeah this whole system is pretty wonky.
SD on 24/4/2023 at 18:51
The prevailing view these days seems to be that the only real violence is words.
rachel on 25/4/2023 at 14:10
You can still follow a handle even if you're not on the same server, you don't need to create a new account, but yeah that's not really obvious...
JumpinBlackjackFlash on 7/5/2023 at 11:47
Twitter started out as a site for sharing vacation photos or something. I'll never get why people suddenly decided it would magically make a great tool for protest.
I keep telling people their methods are shortsighted and they keep telling me I lack compassion.
lowenz on 7/5/2023 at 13:03
Not only shortsighted, easely other-directed
Nameless Voice on 8/5/2023 at 22:35
I'm on Mastodon as (
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@namelessvoice) @namelessvoice@mastodon.gamedev.place, but honestly? It seems pointless and I never look at it.
Almost no one posts there. I use Twitter to follow gamedevs, mostly immersive sim ones, and none of them are on Mastodon.
Twitter is also the platform that's actually used by public figures, and none of those post on Mastodon.
Theoretically, I like the idea of a network not owned by a crazy billionaire, but it's of no use until the people I'm interested in actually post there.
Anyway, I haven't noticed any "death" of Twitter. It feels like it should die with how many stupid things Musk is doing, but the core system still works. There's a bunch of nonsense about blue tickmarks and algorithms, but the whole beauty of Twitter is that you can turn the algorithms off.
Yeah, there's been a bit of an uptick of hate since they fired all the content moderators, but it's not like the old Twitter team ever actually did anything when I reported posts anyway. If I was very lucky, they'd send me a message to tell me that they'd looked at some vile post I'd flagged and decided that it was perfectly acceptable behaviour, so no real change there.
The solution is just to never read replies to any public figure. The tweets and replies of the imm-sim developers on there are nearly always wholesome, I can't think of any vile behaviour I've seen there.
Edit: Also, I hate Mastodon's use of "favourite" for "like". The two are completely different things, the word favourite makes no sense in that context. Especially when it
also has bookmarks.
Quote Posted by Aja
Anyway, I've had an inactive Twitter account for years now, but once Musk decided to slap CBC with a “government-funded media” tag, I deleted my account in protest. For the record, CBC is government funded, but its editorial independence is enshrined in law, so it is unequivocally not a government mouthpiece, as the tag implies.
Okay, let's kick the hornet's nest. As much as I hate Elon Musk, this is honestly one of the few positive things he's done. It's ridiculous that some countries' media is tagged as "government-funded", to try to de-legitimise its reporting, while other countries' state-run media doesn't get the tag.
Pyrian on 9/5/2023 at 04:09
Funded and controlled are not necessarily the same thing. ...Especially when there's a legal requirement against the latter.
