Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by captainbland on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:45AM (#17828201)

Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by TremendousJudge on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:52AM (#17828272)

>just go to another and still contact friends

the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by ct0 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:02PM (#17828354)

So my mom and aunt wont be on it? Sign me up

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by code_duck on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:08PM (#17828416)

Much like here, where I only talk to the kind of person who would sign up for Hacker News. Oh, wait... that’s a good thing.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by egypturnash on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:53AM (#17828282)

are you sure this is not actually an advantage

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by notheguyouthink on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:03PM (#17828363)

It is and it isn't. I imagine your humor implies that technical people are using Mastadon, ie the same type that would be using HN, but the reality is that while that is true, Twitter "rejects" are also using Mastadon. Sometimes this means communities filled with very.. controversial people.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by captainbland on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:11PM (#17828434)

Yeah again I guess this is the choice isn't it? Those communities spring up everywhere, but instances can still block one-another. I'd say it's better to have a choice of moderation style than one grand overseer.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by naravara on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:34PM (#17828613)

>It is and it isn't. I imagine your humor implies that technical people are using Mastadon, ie the same type that would be using HN, but the reality is that while that is true, Twitter "rejects" are also using Mastadon. Sometimes this means communities filled with very.. controversial people.

Mastodon being federated, though, means that while the controversial people may be using it, the rest of the Mastodon-Verse doesn't need to interact with them.

The big trouble with Twitter is that if those people want to harass you, you as a user have very little choice but to sit there and take it.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by captainbland on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:05PM (#17828386)

Have you met people on twitter?

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:11PM (#17828439)

Have you met people?

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by Scoping_dindus on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:02PM (#17828359)

Yeah, exactly. Look at the content Facebook wants you to see. Would you rather consume that?

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by Rjevski on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:49PM (#17829241)

Mastodon will go nowhere unless they fix their branding and user experience first.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by chrisco255 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:52AM (#17828274)

Thing is, I've seen performance issues on some of the instances out there. Also, the UI could use a lot of work before it goes mainstream.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by saudioger on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:17PM (#17828493)

That's like saying "I've seen performance issues on websites", of course someone can have poor resourcing on their own servers — I think the biggest barrier for Mastodon is understanding how instances aren't individual monoliths and your choice can directly impact everything you do.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by dredmorbius on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:04PM (#17828853)

Fail Whale on line three.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by chrisco255 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:59PM (#17829321)

Yeah but Mastadon has to compete with Twitter, which already works pretty well. To go mainstream, they'll need to do better.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by dredmorbius on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:09PM (#17831347)

Mastodon has no burn rate. It can improve incrementally and snipe valued users.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by parliament32 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:10PM (#17829805)

>just go to another

Does Mastadon have a way to migrate your posts/followers/etc from one instance to another?

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by eahman08 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:32PM (#17831167)

You can only contact friends from other instances if your instance hasn't blocked the other instance.

Also most instances are everything but free speech friendly. I don't understand where the improvement over Twitter is. It's a Twitter clone with fewer users, a more complicated UX, and where you can get banned faster.

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by guiomie on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:23PM (#17828536)

My impression when I looked into Mastodon was that it doesn't solve any of the issues with Twitter. It's just a bunched of servers owned by different entities, I doubt this will scale socially and technologically

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Re:Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Sn... by captainbland on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:29PM (#17828585)

Well it's choice. That's what it gives you. No more, no less, really.

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