Alright I see that works…. but that’s gone when you start scrolling. I have to scroll back up for that to even appear. Also what’s with all the newb accounts posting and giving this props.
Awesome hope you like it! I love the boost carousel and shortcut/column options. It also allows for post quoting with the boost button. All sorts of crafty little features tucked away.
New Corporate Owned Social Media Network: “ooh cool so many people are using it let’s put all of our critical stuff on there alerts weather warnings and kill our RSS feeds and only interact with customers there”
New Federated Open Social Media Network: “this is phase 7 of our extremely careful 10 phase plan to possibly repost stuff we put on twitter there if the social media intern remembers”
Don’t get me wrong I’m glad they’re doing this, but I find it hilarious that everyone trips over themselves launching on Twitter and TikTok without thinking it through at all, and yet for Mastodon it has to be a limited phased trial.
Correct and hardly anyone is onboarded and told that their instance is connected to thousands of other instances that can and will copy & store their content.
So far in the trial we’ve amassed around 60,000 followers across our six trial accounts, and we have had to do very little moderation of replies associated with our content. Reassuringly, most of the comments and feedback have been positive, welcoming both our interest and the way we have set things up.
We’ve had really encouraging levels of engagement (i.e. replies, re-posts and likes) on Mastodon. For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms.
That is encouraging. If social media teams see that the Fediverse offers not just control, but more engagement and less moderation requirements maybe other organizations will pick it up.
Yeah at this point I’m surprised how news organizations can still be on X. That place is complete bullshit now and I bet the comments on news articles are especially troubling.
Yeah at this point I’m surprised how news organizations can still be on X
Why? The people left on there are the ideal target audience for propaganda, plus if it gets them clicks (=money) which is what they're in the business for, why would they walk away? Expecting ethics in journalism under capitalism is futile (sure, individual ethical journalists exist, but they aren't the ones we're talking about nor do they represent the industry).
We are on their radar, though, and they will eventually try to control us. US military-industrial complex think tank Atlantic Council report: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF link)
Wow. there are some takes on this. I agree with the sentiment, but five posts of 97 in and I’ve read something to the effect of “violating ToS is illegal” two or maybe three times. Buncha people trying to lawyer this out of existence out of court with only a high school education and a few episodes of law and order to guide them. Then it’s a whole bunch of parrots saying the headline with a bunch of thumbs and hearts and no actual discussion or real engagement with the concept. A few good takes here and there, but mostly confused panicflood. Yikes. This is going to be a clusterfuck.
Edit: About a third of the way down I start seeing really cogent arguments, and compiled evidence against the proposal. A little further and I can see the project engineer’s uh… response basically ignoring everything “I knew I would recieve pushback and I did, more than I was expecting, but I’m going forward anyway” fucking
Edit 2: forget everything I said at first as not relevant, this guy is an asshole
Edit 3: No, the part about lawyering was absolutely dead on actually. It’s like watching charlie trying to go toe-to-toe on birdlaw in there. Or watching sovcits trying to cast spells to make the law work in their favor. Silly.
Yeah the best argument I found were repeated variations to the effect, “The scientists were so busy worrying if they could, they didn’t stop to wonder if they should.”
I meant this part “Buncha people trying to lawyer this out of existence out of court with only a high school education and a few episodes of law and order to guide them.” in my original comment was dead on.
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