me on twitter: ugh my TL is hot garbage, I need to unfollow like 200 people
me on the fediverse: followed. followed. followed. youre all followed. all of you are beautiful souls and I want to see all ur posts
Yes you point an interesting topic. i also think that mastodon, in its design is great to avoid the "influencer problem" of a fiew voices covering all the others.
Plus people coming here knows more or less the idea of free software and are looking for a model that respects them and their privacy in opposition to the somewhat toxic Twitter environement
We have to thank @Gargron for that.
Indeed I like Mastodon a lot.
I didn't have time to look at the sources or to study the #federation #protocol but I will sure give a look: as #distributed #system it might give me new ideas for my research os.
However, if I understood correctly (and I'm happy to be corrected) from a #privacy pow Mastodon is a little worse than twitter as you could collect toots from the local timelines of several instances and build pretty good models of their users. ...
@Shamar @Qanno @balrogboogie I'm not sure if you're aware but twitter sells firehose API access
@Gargron
Yes I knew, it is the MAIN reason why I never was on twitter. Mastodon is the first "twitter like" Social Network I choose to join.
Especially because you can choose to who you're giving your data.
@Shamar but if your instance admin is dishonnest, he or she could very well do like tweeter and sell your privacy away.
BUT you have the choice to choose at least. :)
@Shamar @balrogboogie @Gargron @Qanno There are a couple of personal instances that operate just that way.
