[LINK] Musk and Twitter

[Roger Clarke]

On 16/2/23 5:11 pm, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 16:36 +1100, Kate Lance wrote:
>> But Mastodon doesn't have ads ...
> 
> And it is soooo nice to be in a place with next to no ads, using
> software that is designed to let you tune in to what you do want and
> tune out of what you don't, that doesn't foist stuff on you that you
> never asked for, and that doesn't run on confected outrage.

Back in 2010-14, I kept banging on about
Consumer-Oriented Social Media (COSM)
(But I never did get to reduce its size and deliver a MicroCOSM).

The most useful paper is here, starting at 3 (earlier is ac bumff):
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/COSM-1402.html#COSME

I did a couple of evaluations years ago, but have never sat down and
evaluated Mastodon.  Obviously, as one of the models, it would score
very well;  but it would still be worth checking - and upgrading /
articulating my old lists.


Another test of Mastodon would be whether it can be used for team
support in an online-forum manner - a poor man's Atlassian-alt'ive?

Here's what we used when we looked for something workable for the ACS
Constitutional activity, which we set up on the Saturday and went live
with on the Tuesday after the long weekend:
http://crwg.org/CRWG-ForumSvce-210822.pdf

Any critique very welcome - if derisive, off-list of course   (:-)}

______________

> People do self-promote, but it's people, so it's usually actually
> interesting - artists of various stripes, that sort of thing. It is
> trivially easy to filter, mute or even block people or entire servers
> if you don't like them, so while I have seen some outright commercial
> stuff, it's been done very sparingly and veeerrry carefully, because it
> is just so easy for people to say "nope".
> 
> So far, I've been very happy with Mastodon. I'm sure there are storms
> ahead, but it is distributed and open. The latter means people can and
> will try to subvert it, but the former means that other people can
> counteract such things, and generally speaking bad actors are made
> invisible ("defederated") quicker than you can blink.
> 
> Heartily recommended if you are interested in generally civilised
> social discourse.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 


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