henke on 9/5/2023 at 05:20
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Almost no one posts there.
Well then it should be easy for you to see the posts of the people who DO post there, ie ME! So make it with the faves and the boosts CHOP CHOP
Also, you're following 12 people. Gotta get that number up if you want your Home feed to start resembling what you see on twitter.
There's a lot of cool folks on masto, but I do wish the crowd was more diverse tho. It's all pretty much just a whole buncha NERDS! And yeah, I'm a nerd, but having some normal people posting there once in a while would really liven the place up.
<Username> on 9/5/2023 at 08:01
I am on @masto.ai and use the "Mastodon for iPhone and iPad" app since November 2022. Here is my experience so far:
* Home: I follow about 15 accounts and one hashtag. There are new posts about my interests every few minutes. I appreciate there are no ads on Mastodon and no algorithm pushes content into my home stream.
* Search: I usually search for hashtags which I don't want to add to my home feed because I don't want to read about these topics all the time. For the topics I am most interested in, I find less content than I got on Twitter, but much higher quality overall. This area of the app also has tabs for "News", "Community" and "For You", but I never use them because they show content on topics I am not interested in.
* Notifications: My content gets mentioned, boosted and favorited by people who follow me or sometimes by people who found my content by searching for the hashtags I used in my content. It is about the same level of interaction I got on Twitter.
Overall, I am very satisfied with my experience on Mastodon. For my personal interests, I get enough content and interaction. :)
Nameless Voice on 9/5/2023 at 09:57
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Funded and controlled are not necessarily the same thing. ...Especially when there's a legal requirement against the latter.
Funding definitely affects bias.
It's a moot point anyway, as I believe Twitter just got rid of all those funding labels again now.
Quote Posted by henke
Also, you're following 12 people. Gotta get that number up if you want your Home feed to start resembling what you see on twitter.
Except all the people I'm following on Twitter aren't on Mastodon. I don't want to just follow random people on there!
In other words, the technology doesn't really matter, the most important thing is which platform everyone uses.
Starker on 9/5/2023 at 19:13
There's a great difference, though, whether a news organisation receives 1-10% of it's funding from the government and might therefore be biased towards pro-government messaging and whether it gets its marching orders from the government and is immediately punished should it publish something critical of it.
But I guess Russia Today and NPR have the same ideological bent of being "state-affiliated" in the eyes of some people.
Aja on 9/5/2023 at 20:05
CBC doesn't do pro-government messaging. They do stories on climate change and trans rights, sure, and they've endured decades of budget cuts for being just barely on the left side of centre, but they're equally critical of government as they are of opposition, despite what the conservatives who don't actually read them say.
As for Musk, what he actually put was a "69 percent government funded" tag because the CBC said they were less than 70 percent gov't funded and he apparently thought that was hilarious. He's an early 2000s edgelord in charge of several billion-dollar companies.
mxleader on 19/8/2023 at 17:11
I think I signed up for Twitter and lasted a day before I deleted my account, and that was years before Elon bought it. I just don't get why anyone wants to read or share that much detail of their daily lives so often. That being said I was just looking at Mastodon and it looks a lot like what Facebook was in the beginning. Not sure it's worth spending time on that app though. Also, the M in the logo for some reason makes me want McDonald's.
Starker on 19/8/2023 at 17:53
Quote Posted by Cipheron
Latest Twitter thing, X users don't need to be able to block other users.
Now that everybody has seen him chicken out of a fight, he has to prove himself in some way.
R Soul on 19/8/2023 at 17:54
Quote Posted by Cipheron
safe spaces on Twitter than trolls can't flood with hostile comments
Is it helpful to use words like 'safe' and 'hostile' regarding words people post on the internet? I think words like that exaggerate significance of trolls and other objectionable people.
demagogue on 19/8/2023 at 22:27
I think it's true that trolling is a lot more basic problem, and you often don't want to give a troll more credit than they're worth.
But I could see from the perspective of some people being targeted, they might not feel safe.
Actually one part of the law firm where I work represents women being sexually harassed on Twitter, when some wacko guy is relentlessly harassing a woman or even getting her address to stalk her and putting up proof in their Twitter feed, etc., things like that, bad enough that I had to figure out the process to get a subpoena from a Japanese judge to Twitter's International HQ, in Dublin at the time, for the Japanese guy's IP address so the judge could issue an arrest warrant. From the number of clients we get, it happens more than you'd probably like to know.
I could imagine an equivalent kind of case for certain minorities or minority groups badgered by hate speech and getting targeted IRL.
But anyway for a case like that, the language of safe and hostile is definitely fair and not being able to block people is going to make things a lot worse for people realizing they're entering that situation.
