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https://nu.federati.net/url/289353 [arstechnica com]
$1,5,000,000 payment on the #Twitter purchase is due soon. Will there be a default?
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https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/01/the-end-of-the-twitter-client-era/ [sixcolors com]
I remember using 3rd party clients to access #Twitter. There was the commandline #TTYtter, the #Flock browser's built-in social client, and many others.
As Twitter added ads andspewed tons of #JavaScript, leading to a "jumping and twitching" interface that would move underneath your mouse pointer and cause mis-clicks, and as it took 5-10 minutes after logging in for the page to fully load, it was clients that made the site tolerable.
There was the "OAuth-pocalypse", when they required all clients to use OAuth (v2?) and it intermittently failed for a few weeks.
Then came the day when clients and other API uses "that substantially reproduce" the Twitter UI were notified that their days were numbered. I remember @evan telling them that Identica and other StatusNet instances had a similar API ... but few, if any, clients came over. Most just shut down.
Hilariously, there was a trivially reproducible social ranking thing that was cited as an example of the kind of API uses Twitter considered interesting and allowable.
There were other, lesser bumps in the road, but as Twitter had already strangled most of its client ecosystem, I did not pay attention.
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@bobjonkman @bobjonkman One positive is that some #Twitter clients are now advertising #Mastodon clients. I wish they'd also look at making clients for #GNUsocial, #Misskey, #PixelFed and so on, as not everyone supports the Mastodon API.
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@bobjonkman I've heard that #Twitter revoked access for most 3rd party clients, but I don't use them, so I cannot confirm.
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#Twitter considered "pay for usernames" to bring in revenue -- NYTimes
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Speaking of #Twitter, it has had some sort of outage for the past few hours. I've seen people posting about being sent to the login screen, then getting an error and being sent back to the login screen.
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https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a
#Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article.
"Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight"
> Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal.
No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter.
And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it.
> I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely!
Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use.
> But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story.
Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance.
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One thing about this surge of people migrating from #Twitter to the #Fediverse is that people who gave up on #federated #socnets years ago and solely used #corpocentric platforms are now coming back.
Thus, I get announcements about people I knew from #Tent (thanks to fellow former Tentler @bthall) along with news about people from #Identi.ca and other #StatusNet and #Pump.io instances returning.
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https://freeradical.zone/@Guslanzetta/109576301598478337
Claim that #Twitter had a breach which exposed 400,000,000 usernames and related information
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https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/21/Mastodon-Ethics
Tim Bray discusses the ethics of moving to #Mastodon (and probably the #Fediverse in general), considering the views of groups such as #BlackTwitter whose norms and needs differ from those of most Mastodon users.
He concludes (correctly, I might add) that it is ethical to leave #Twitter and move to Mastodon and the Fediverse.
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#Vivaldi Browser added a social side panel and says it was the first to do so. https://vivaldi.com/new/
Years ago, a #Firefox fork called #Flock had a social tool built in. I only used it for #Twitter, but it was there. Memory is unclear whether it was a side panel or another Window with different measurements, but it existed.
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https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/ [www wired com]
Wired: #Mastodon features that #Twitter should steal
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Anyway, Paul Graham (@paulg@twitter.com) had his #Twitter account suspended over a link to his #Fediverse #Mastodon account. Last I checked, the suspension seems to have been reverted.
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I saw this screenshot that claims to be #Twitter's new policy on accounts promoting competing #socnet s. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/288977
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I missed it, but it appears that #OpenBazaar is gone. Their #Twitter account has some details (from early 2021).
OB was a fee-free peer-to-peer marketplace. I think it was based on #cryptocurrencies ... at least #Bitcoin #BTC.
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https://masto.ai/@fedi/109524542188078836
> BREAKING NEWS: Gargron is no longer the most followed person on mastodon. This is great news (no offence to
@gargron ) as it signifies the network is growing to be more independent of its most famous developer.
> The new most followed person is
@georgetakei@universeodon.com
So let me tell you why this is NOT a good thing. George Takei is a celebrity actor. That people are crawling after actors and other celebs means that the #Twitter migration is bringing their culture (with all its flaws) here. Again, as they did this before during #Mastodon's early growth. Much Masto culture is merely Twitter and Tumblr culture, sometimes reflected in a mirror and sometimes adopted wholesale.
Thankfully, the #Fediverse is more than just Mastodon.
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Since the #Twitter siege against journalists and alternative #socnet platforms began a few hours ago, the number of new #Mastodon accounts started surging again.
> +3,992 in the last hour
> +29,495 in the last day
This doesn't count GS, Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey, Epicyon, PixelFed, or any other #Fediverse platform.
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@geniusmusing Also, this drastically reduces the utility of the platform. When something happens--an event, a news story, a tragedy--people turn to #Twitter because the people in the know are there. Severe weather, earthquake, flood, all of them are reported on Twitter, sometimes with links to a news or agency report. California Highway Patrol even puts its AMBER alerts there.
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@geniusmusing I guess that means that any journalist that uses #Twitter should be opening one or more backup accounts in the #Fediverse and using it enough to be familiar and ready ... and giving their current audience enough heads up so they know where to find their chosen news sources.
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That's hilarious. What sparked a bunch of people to try #Mastodon in 2017? Ads on #Twitter and #Tumblr "it's like Twitter without the Nazis".
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