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Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

slrpnk.net/post/282698

slrpnk.netCan Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? - SLRPNKEugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll get it. If you don’t like Gmail, you can switch to something else, but you don’t have to quit email entirely as a concept.
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To be honest…
The question is do we want the trolls of Twitter here?
It's more relaxed here, calmer and nicer.
I'm still on Twitter, you can be on multiple platforms.
I see completely different things on Twitter and use Twitter differently.

Mar 29, 2023, 06:05 AM·Public·Web
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Steve

That's definitely an important question. The culture on Twitter can be far less respectful than Mastodon so we definitely don't want that here but the moderation options give users more control when dealing with bad actors so eventually it balances out to some extent.

I got rid of Twitter when Musk took over and brought actual fascists back while getting rid of anti-fascists but I agree you can use different services and expect different things from them. The Fediverse is more inherently built to last and for I feel increasingly more inclined to post on those services, though.

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