Twitter Killing Its Mac App

Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by rocky1138 on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:44PM (#16398593)

Can we channel all the anger and frustration this has caused into switching to Mastodon/GNU Social?

Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by lokedhs on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:01AM (#16399313)

I tried Twitter a long time ago, and never enjoyed it.

I've been quite active on Mastodon (@[email protected]) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot.

It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter ever could.

The biggest problem with Mastodon at the moment is discoverability. It takes some effort finding the right people to follow but I've found a reasonable group of people who are interested in things like Emacs, Lisp etc.

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by rocky1138 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:44PM (#16402018)

I'd love to read more on how you found those people. I completely agree that discoverability is a huge problem.

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by skinnymuch on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:43PM (#16404325)

I am really interested in how you found people too.

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by lokedhs on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:10AM (#16404877)

I joined an instance which focuses on the things I'm interested in, and look at the local timeline. That timeline contains original posts (i.e. not replies) posted from that instance. I'd follow pretty much anyone posting anything remotely interesting.

A lot of people tend to boost interesting posts, and following people whose posts gets boosted allows you to grow your follow list with interesting posts.

Unfollowing people that keeps posting uninteresting things is also important of course.

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by skinnymuch on Saturday February 24, 2018 @02:48PM (#16454940)

Can you mention your instance or how you went about finding it? Sorry for more questions

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by SyneRyder on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:01AM (#16399131)

Personally if I have to jump from Twitter, I'm more likely to switch to Micro.blog [1]. Everything is posted to your own site as an RSS post, and it already has iPhone and Mac apps. And of course, it has an API for making your own apps.

[1] https://micro.blog/about

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by rocky1138 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:43PM (#16401719)

Does it support OStatus?

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by ttepasse on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:58PM (#16401783)

It seems that Microblog is a mixture of Feeds and the Indieweb, namely the Micropub API which originated there: http://help.micro.blog/2017/api-posting/

Btw: Isn't ActivityPub the new OStatus?

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by SyneRyder on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:05PM (#16401803)

Might also be worth pointing out that Micropub is a W3C Recommendation [1], and I think MicroPub and ActivityPub are meant to work together [2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/

[2] https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5286

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by beeflaw on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:26AM (#16401068)

I'm still looking for an "open" alternative that is strong on free speech without being home turf for white identitarians (gab.ai).

Looking an Mastadon's policies makes me give up hope: https://mastodon.social/about/more

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Re:Twitter Killing Its Mac App by rocky1138 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:42PM (#16402009)

You can run your own and follow who you want. What's more free than that?

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