I refuse to sign up for any more social media. If I need slop to post on this site I’ll go out of my way to find a way to view posts without an account. If not, I will repost classics
Might as well when we're already passing around the one tooth brush.
Who has the tooth brush anyway I'm going to bed soon and my mouth tastes like gopher feet.
my mouth tastes like gopher feet.
Too many owls using the tooth brush.
Americans hate corporations, but also trust them more than they do other Americans.
It's pretty frustrating. Basically, people just want to tweet. They don't care about privacy or the long-term health of a platform. Mastodon is even less attractive to them because it takes a few days to get used to, and you'll probably need to find the right instance for you.
This. You really can't overstate how much of an advantage it is to already have a massive network, to have massive amounts of money to push ads, to have massive amounts of money to put your app or whatever the fuck at the top of the list in the walled garden. The Lemmyverse is the biggest non-corporate competitor to Reddit and a dozen other things and the entire user base is, like, what, a few thousand people?
Also googling mastadon will result in seeing the band. Googling threads or twitter alternative will lead to threads.
Also google loves suppressing results for open source software its impossible to find even if you know what you're looking for cos they more or less block it from showing.
That and mastadon itself isn't exactly user friendly to computer plebs since mastadon has instances then you need a client that's not call mastadon to connect to it and that'll kill most users there. If it takes more than 10 seconds to use the service then people quit trying. Threads is linked to an insta account which most people already have so its effortless to sign up.
Googling mastodon for me (even if I misspell it as mastadon) immediately leads me to 3 different links related to the federated twitter clone, a wikipedia page for the animal, and then as a sub-link from there the wikipedia page for the band
Mastodon
I like their early sludgier stuff, but fell off when they started getting all fancy proggy
Wait what
Used to really like Dry Bone Valley and Curl of the Burl when I was younger but I haven't listened to either of them in years and my tastes have shifted so much IDK anymore.
Fully agree. The hunter was where i said no thanks and when i listened to the emperor of sand or whatever I felt like I was listening to the radio
People don't want separate little Twitters for them and 5 of their friends, they want the entire world in one big Twitter
Omg this is just like Fishblade except this time we're the Fishblade of social media
they want the entire world in one big Twitter
I don't think these days are coming back. I think we have already reached the plateau of Internet platform centralization, and it is bound to fracture and balkanize from here. They can only allow us plebs to ratio high ranking executives and stenographers of the state with pigpoopballs for so long. In many ways, Twitter was a mistake that they will explicitly avoid repeating.
I signed up for Mastodon, but no one I follow is there so I have no use for it.
The average person does not give a fuck about any of the downsides to social media (or anything, really) unless those downsides become so disruptive and obvious they can no longer be ignored, like Twitter under Musk's tenure. They will go with the crowd and follow the path of least resistance. The best platform (if you want to compete for the average person) is the simplest. Nothing else matters.
Next to urban planning and such it seems the whole shebang about open source software, opsec and data protection just escapes most leftists at this point, even. I noticed it during corona when some institutions would opt to use open source stuff instead of forking over bucketloads of cash and data to your usual big american companies and I've seen so many leftists go "fucking computer nerds just buy MS lmao it's the best it works". Like otherwise cool leftists. Same here. My going theory is that both fields have outwards representation that's usually not very leftist (you know, the old white bicycle crank, all the pony tailed computer nerds and so) and so with no actual knowledge of the topic people just default to the against those position, which lands you at those funny positions of "cycling lanes are gentrification" and "we need to pay for the privilege to hand whatever US tech firm is the current thing all our data" and such.
There's also the fact that people have been taught for their jobs, at university or in training, to use enterprise software like MS Office, Adobe products, Oracle, Visual Studio, etc. No one wants to learn new stuff for their job if they don't have to.
Sure, whatever, let your boss pay for it, I don't care. Most people don't use Twitter / Threads / Mastodon professionally though in any which capacity, I care about when it's the public that's in there somehow which is definitely the case when you argue for selling all your school kids data to Microsoft because you figure the best possible option is to just buy Teams.
Maybe it's a pet peeve, but there's an infuriating ignorance among many people who by all means should know better to even engage with alternative ideas here in these topics I feel.
The "FOSS enthusiasts" are lib techbros, which play quite well with your average folks and is why any of those get occasionally used. The actual FOSS enthusiasts, not so much.
I mean I wouldn't say they're all honeypots, they're just not the end all be all final solution for perfect privacy without having to think about anything before
mastodon should have been made easier for people who don't care about how things work to use it
I think the difference is that Threads is very much linked to Instagram you don't have to register an account if you have Instagram. Ppl are lazy even if they know mastodon is a thing.
