Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
by ajross on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:47AM
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> Why Twitter should feel threatened by this clusterfuck at all is a mystery to me.
I don't want to be too glib, because your technical concerns are legitimate and well-argued. But... have you actually tried using it?
It works fine! It doesn't work as well as Twitter and has rough edges, but at this point it's well past the "will it work?" stage. There are real people there posting real content and engaging in real ways. If Twitter were to disappear tomorrow, people could all just move over and... it would be fine.
So it's OK to criticize, but the idea that it's somehow fatally flawed seems weird to me. It works fine.
I don't want to be too glib, because your technical concerns are legitimate and well-argued. But... have you actually tried using it?
It works fine! It doesn't work as well as Twitter and has rough edges, but at this point it's well past the "will it work?" stage. There are real people there posting real content and engaging in real ways. If Twitter were to disappear tomorrow, people could all just move over and... it would be fine.
So it's OK to criticize, but the idea that it's somehow fatally flawed seems weird to me. It works fine.