[LINK] Musk and Twitter

[Kate Lance]

The thing I particularly like with Mastodon is that I can walk away for a day
or two, and not feel any urge to doomscroll - it's very peaceful. 

I check back on Twitter now and then but it feel strange. A lot of familiar
people have moved away or their posts simply don't turn up any more. 

And something with Twitter is a bit odd - at least three times now I've found
I'm 'following' people I don't remember following. And they're posting
anti-Green or anti-vax content I'd never choose to read. 

Maybe my memory's worse than I thought, or maybe Elmo's Twitter is flinging
fake follows around to amp up activity. Unthinkable last October - horribly
plausible now.

Regards, Kate



On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:00:04PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 17:11 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > Heartily recommended if you are interested in generally civilised
> > social discourse.
> 
> Actually it's probably also pretty good if you like hanging out with
> neo-Nazis, homophobes, transphobes, conspiracy theorists, Trumpists and
> assorted other right-wing nutjobs. And worse.
> 
> The thing is that in Mastodon you can effectively and with immediate
> effect control whom you allow to speak to *you*; others control whether
> or not you can speak to *them*. These tools are directly in *your*
> hands, you don't have to ask someone else to do it for you.
> 
> Server admins also block communications from people and servers that do
> not meet their policies, and these policies are public information on
> every server. There is a very widespread "covenant" between Mastodon
> admins that generally blocks all of the above, and a simple mechanism
> for anyone to report it if they see it. If for some reason you don't
> like what your server's admins are doing, you can easily change
> servers. Or have different personas on different servers (though if you
> are one of the above, all your personas are regarded as non grata by
> most admins).
> 
> So if you like chatting with people like the above, just find a server
> with a policy that allows whatever variety of unhinged, perverse or
> hateful discourse you want to engage in and go for it. You will swiftly
> find yourself isolated in a puddle of like-minded people whose voices
> are heard only by each other, while the civilised world continues
> without hearing any of it.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
> 
> 
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