@atomicpoet@gruber it was here doing just fine before most people heard about it because of the Twitter craziness it got a huge boost, it will do just fine. It doesn’t have to be the Twitter clone people think they want
@atomicpoet You have to understand where he's coming from.
He's very used to attaching himself to something, and then strongly identifying with that thing. This is of course true for the Apple stuff, but for the longest time it was Twitter, until it wasn't tenable anymore.
Twitter really suited him, since it very well matches his blogging style (quite something and add a few sentences of sometimes snarky commentary)
Twitter was definitely part of his "rise to fame" so to speak, since it amplified his blog posts, so being forced off the platform cannot have been easy.
I remember when G+ came out, and he made a single post on there pretty early, with a single sentence where he proclaimed he didn't enjoy it. Note that this was long before G+ actually failed.
So what do you do when your megaphone has been shut off? You go looking for another one. If your replacement megaphone has the property that it can be silenced by a nearby neighbourhood that doesn't want to hear it, you'll be upset.
@loke@atomicpoet It is ironic tho, that it is this kind of identifying with/as things that is the root cause of the exact petulant nannyism he is objecting to.
@aardvark Sure, but these days, no one would take any such effort from Google seriously. Back then, things were very different, and for some time G+ had more active users than twitter.
@loke it was a poor offering on day one. Some critics rightly called it what it was. It’s a facile argument to lump all critics in with all naysayers. Some critics have quite the track record.
@loke @atomicpoet of course he hated G+. Like Mastodon, time-linear and no algos so you had to work hard and/or not be a schmuck and get shared in the follow Friday sort of thing to get followers.
@atomicpoet@gruber weird. Mastodon is the lowest common denominator. Everything else has Mastodon plus other features!
Blue sky looks way harder to operate than masto. I couldn't even figure out how to pick a server, and its federation systems seen more complex for server operators.
Here’s what I don’t get. @gruber sees the 100+ projects that use #ActivityPub, the 25,000 nodes, 11 million users—says it’s all doomed—because one server threatened to defederate due to spite.
@atomicpoet@gruber you know, I would have but I read faster than my clients manage to load the back threads and I often don’t know there’s more to read. Found the original because I didn’t know any better:
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