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Tiernan Ray's avatar

Nice piece, Ed. Things are so much better when people take time to fashion thoughts in elegantly written sentences that can be as long as they need be, rather than simply blurting out their first thought in some kind of mindless ejaculation as they usually do on…

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Jerry Lerman's avatar

Excellent article! Coincidentally, I just spent the morning with Mastodon. Other than that I keep misspelling "mastodon", I've been lucky enough not to have encountered any of the problems you did. I'm using the social.linux.pizza server because I'm into Linux and it attracted me. So, for me, it's a perfectly usable server and seems well moderated (not saying Mastadon [sic] is a perfectly usable Twitter substitute).

I actually do have desktop Linux for my home computer, so I'm more patient with this. Your point is well taken.

I can at least see Twitter posts in Mastodon (I follow "edbott@twtr.plus", for example), which is helpful, while I wait for the day that will never come when everyone creates a Mastodon account to replace their Twitter account.

I cannot reply or "re-toot" Twitter posts because, "BirdsiteLIVE does not make any public posts; every post is scoped appropriately using the "followers-only" or "unlisted" ActivityPub audiences."

So, in other words, I can't reply or "re-toot" Twitter posts, and I don't know why, because twtr.plus is under control of people who have no ability to explain themselves using English, a perfect reflection of the whole problem with trying to use Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter.

No, not a replacement for Twitter.

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