@rolle#Threads recently released the ability to edit posts—but only up to five minutes after the post is created (#Mastodon does not give you a time limit—but they do alert those who reply to the post if any edits happen).
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Sorry, if you include "sort of opensource" (basically possible future evolutions), you might also add "maybe" for ads in Mastodon => nothing here that keeps a site admin from adding ads to his site.
Question is if it would be successful, but "maybe"?
Yep every time #Elon implements a great idea #Nitter coughs and splutters. But the developer normally finds a workaround in hours or days. But the last workaround was pretty convoluted so the next strike may be fatal.
Enjoy Nitter and the last good people still on #Twitter ad-free while you can.
@stuart
I stopped posting on twitter last year. I made my account private but I kept logging in to get information from the disability and chronic illness community (mostly ME/CFS and Long Covid, but also other topics) and then I'd repost it here.
But I finally deactivated my account last month. So nitter - at least while it still works - is very helpful.
Sadly, way too many research and advocacy organizations still use twitter to post stuff that is not found on their websites.
Yes it is shocking that organisations will tweet stuff but not put it on their site. Most website 'news' sections are pretty moribund. All because the designers rarely provide an easy to post facility.
I know WordPress posting isn't that difficult but still a magnitude greater than Twitter. T'is a pity 'cos collect all the website #rss feeds into one reader would be the most convenient ad & algorithm free way of getting the info you want.
@rolle promising that mastodon is a safe space is dangerously overoptimistic, people have been burned believing that promise, is it better? Heck yes, but "safe"? no, not by a wide margin.
@rolle Safe space yes, untill you start using mastodons not encrypted private messaging. Then this whole "safe" turn out to be not so much safe or even not safe at all. 🙃
Depending on where you look, you can definitely find the unfiltered and unrestricted variety™ of the internet. But I think that's a good thing. And there are plenty of tools to protect yourself. Maybe that's what you meant?
One criteria I would add to that chart would be "is it #AltText/Voiceover friendly?" I know Mastodon allows visually impaired users to hear text, and the culture here promotes lots of AltText inclusion. Technically, AltText is possible on the Bird Site, but I haven't checked to see if folks include it often.
@TheManyVoices Difficult to include in the table, I wanted to keep it simple. All of these services provide alt text. It's true that only Mastodon succeeds in having it built-in the conduct and culture as well.
@rmattila74@rolle@TheManyVoices yeah it certainly takes more time, not ideal if you're using a switch or similar to type. I wish the baked in text detection in Mastodon was better, I find it's very garbled and very easily bested by Google lens.
@rolle FYI: Bluesky (or ATProto according to the diagram there) can be self-hosted. The thing is the instance of the Bluesky BGS doesn’t aggregate with other PDSs but Bluesky’s official one (for now). So while technically you can self-host it, it may not be as useful until your PDS can be connected to the main BGS.
@rolle You can, but it will be fully isolated from the rest of the ATProto network. Just your very own thing, which will serve no purpose…
On the other hand, boiling it down to just that shows that maybe you don’t see the benefit of having a personal datastore (think of it like a passport) separate from the data aggregation service, which is what those folks are doing. For me, it’s probably the only feature I’d wish ActivityStream/ActivityPub had contemplated.
@rolle Nicely done!
Small nitpick: I wonder if there would be a way to incorporate Fedi (vs Mastodon only) without compromising the clarity. Maybe in the alt text.
Only real difference is if the other software supports CW.
Then again I think Mastodon proper is 50-75% of the traffic...
@paul General conduct and built-in anti-harassment features like extensive content warnings, opt-in search, per-post visibility, filtering options, defederating bunch of servers, etc.
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