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Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon by toofy on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:50PM (#33675147)
oh, my apologies. When i saw your comment...:

> What has changed with either, as it impacts a user? I've looked hard but found zero change whatsoever.

...i mistook that to mean you had been looking hard. sorry bout that.

Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon by AlchemistCamp on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:56PM (#33675190)
I've carefully looked at the app in my own usage, but I'm not going through google news or looking for media write-ups about it as you appear to have been.

In the course of tweeting, reading tweets, etc, I've kept an eye open for any kind of breakages / downtime but haven't seen any.

Have you personally been locked out of your account due to a 2FA problem or was that just something you read about?

Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon by toofy on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:33PM (#33675533)
i have personally experienced site reliability issues (see my screenshot above where it wouldn't even load the home timeline _at all_) and they seem to be getting more prevalent.

i have personally experienced an increase in spam.

i have personally experienced a drastic increase in trolls.

i have personally seen a _dramatic_ increase of outright abusive accounts.

unlike the vast majority of twitter's users, our organization uses physical hardware devices for our 2fa, but after we started seeing the reports, we didn't log out at all--at the time it wasn't clear exactly what was causing the failure, and obviously we didn't want to lose access.

i am genuinely glad that you haven't noticed any of the sites problems tho. i truly do hope they can get it back to the sanity it was pre-october. im pretty skeptical on this tho, i tend to think he's set on turning it into some kind of "be shitty to each other" site, and that will obviously turn it into a ghost-town when compared to what it once was.

Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon by AlchemistCamp on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:19PM (#33676026)
> i have personally experienced

ok, thanks... it's a useful data point even if I haven't encountered the issues.