Some people will never leave Twitter because it's familiar, they're an established journalist addicted to feeling important, or because they're right-wing chuds who want to see Musk and Truth Social Redux succeed.
Some will migrate to Bluesky for Twitter without Musk. Some will stick with Mastodon on principle or because it's good enough. And then there's some also rans. But I don't think Mastodon or Twitter are going anywhere anytime soon.
@donnodubus@gwynnion those features are available on other Fediverse platforms that federate with Mastodon, but you don't see people flocking to those. Because the truth is that those aren't killer features, they're just excuses.
Please get into the habit to caption the images you attach to your links, it's more friendly to visually impaired people, people with slow connections, etc. You may also want to add relevant tags to the toots.
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I wonder if anybody has thought about building a fully #distributed#socialNetwork based on a #DHT such as #kademlia. I'm guessing adding support for a protocol based on this (I2P, IPFS or whatever) on any other distributed SN might do it?
What's the #fediquette (#fediverse#netiquette) concerning boosting your own toots CROSS-SERVER? Say I have a backup account on server X but normally use server Y for posting. Is it acceptable to regularly boost the content from Y using the server X account, or is it frowned upon?
@Velveteen I think the case of different services is … well, different ;-) though. The case I'm thinking about is more “same to same” (like Mastodon-to-Mastodon or more in general microblogging to microblogging).
@yuki2501 I think that's a bit different though, which is why I specified “regularly”. The scenario I'm thinking about is more about using the secondary/backup account like a sort of “mirror” for the main account.
Bluesky is saying that torture and self-harm posts are acceptable. That's the end of Bluesky as far as I'm concerned. They don't have a clue what they're letting themselves in for.
It's still unclear to me who sets those tags and whether this mechanism can be abused to censor content “uncomfortable to power”. Let's say that some of the large-ish instances start blocking specific content tags (e.g. racism or self-harm) altogether. Could this be used by bot networks to tag unrelated content this way to prevent it from federating?
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