Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by INTPenis on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:26AM (#34414507)

Clearly troll bait, but I just wanna say that no one is repeating twitter. This is decentralized. Even if corporations move in and create their own instances it will still remain decentralized. Even if it splinters into pockets of federation, it will still be more of a public domain than twitter ever was, being owned by one corporation.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by tgv on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:35AM (#34414643)

With all the dangers of disinformation and "echo chambers", but a bit bigger. And what for? So more people can feel they have followers and spend time cultivating that?

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by INTPenis on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:41AM (#34414732)

You have to take the good with the bad. People seem to like being social online.

I never understood it myself, was never active on anything but IRC. But ActivityPub seems truly magic when it comes to promoting communication across boundaries such as corporations and software stacks, so I jumped on it back in 2017 and loved seeing it blow up in 2022.

There are clearly a lot of very nice, and very normal, people on there who just love the concept of microblogging. Who am I, or you, to stand in their way? And why should they depend on one corporation to communicate when they can take it into their own hands?

It's really a very natural progression, just like we have many ISPs, phone companies, or anything else in society.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by tgv on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:29PM (#34416507)

> There are clearly a lot of very nice, and very normal, people on there who just love the concept of microblogging. Who am I, or you, to stand in their way? And why should they depend on one corporation to communicate when they can take it into their own hands?

Because many are not nice and the platforms clearly have been abused, drive division in society and are bad for mental health. That's why we can't have nice things.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by INTPenis on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:35AM (#34424656)

I can't disagree, it's all about the dopamine hit to most people. I've felt myself slipping down that slope.

But at the same time I just learned of a protest here in my town, via social media. So it's also helping people organize IRL.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by 4ad on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:39AM (#34414706)

Yes, let's all stay in the existing disinformation echo chambers.

If you see disinformation and find yourself in an echo chamber on a platform where you can chose who you see and engage with, I am afraid it's not the platform's fault.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by tgv on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:24PM (#34416404)

If you get cancer from smoking, it's not the tobacco's industry's fault. If you get shot in a classroom, it's not the gun seller's fault.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by 4ad on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:33PM (#34416596)

...yes? that's the point.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mast... by tgv on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:20PM (#34417292)

The libertarian's point of view?

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