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  1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 17:01:10 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://nu.federati.net/url/290076 [www forbes com]

    From 2022-09: Forbes co-sponsored a session for decentralized socnets ... included some early #Twitter builders

    Article's writer clearly didn't have good sources for some things, though. For example, there were "more than 40" #Mastodon instances. I'm positive there were more than 4000 at the time.
    In conversation Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 17:01:10 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter
      from Forbes
      A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that an engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.
  2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 02:40:34 EST Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
    Einmal mit Profis ... #Twitter #Tweetdeck
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/179379364564098d33e5b24263661529
    In conversation Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 02:40:34 EST from pirati.ca permalink
  3. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 05:32:05 EST Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
    Ich glaube, ich auch nur noch bei #Twitter, weil es irgendwie ein morbides Vergnügen ist, den Vogel abstürzen zu sehen ...
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/157760330163ff296758391486206871
    In conversation Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 05:32:05 EST from pirati.ca permalink
  4. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 22:37:32 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Apparently, there's going to be a "Twitter coin" that gets associated with likes and retweets, so that people who post popular tweets get rewarded. At least, that's what I've seen people posting. I have not logged into #Twitter to see for myself.
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 22:37:32 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  5. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 20:01:06 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #Nitter instance closes due to complaint about #Twitter child porn visible from Nitter. https://pussthecat.org/nitter/
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 20:01:06 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  6. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 10:07:53 EST Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
    Manchmal schießt es aus sehr unerwarteten Ecken gegen #Twitter. Das bayrische Landesamt für neue Medien prüft nun, ob Twitter gegen den Medienstaatsvertrag verstoßen hat, weil Tweets von #Musk massiv priorisiert werden.
    www.blm.de/infothek/pressemitt…
    In conversation Friday, 17-Feb-2023 10:07:53 EST from pirati.ca permalink
  7. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:10:02 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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?
    In conversation Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:10:02 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great
      from Ars Technica
      Purchased for $44 billion, company is likely worth as little as $15 billion today.
  8. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 17:32:12 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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.
    In conversation Monday, 16-Jan-2023 17:32:12 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      The end of the Twitter client era
      By Jason Snell from Six Colors
      The end of the Twitter client era
  9. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 15:19:28 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    in reply to
    • Bob Jonkman
    @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.
    In conversation Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 15:19:28 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  10. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 13:59:07 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    in reply to
    • Bob Jonkman
    @bobjonkman I've heard that #Twitter revoked access for most 3rd party clients, but I don't use them, so I cannot confirm.
    In conversation Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 13:59:07 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  11. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:59:56 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #Twitter considered "pay for usernames" to bring in revenue -- NYTimes
    In conversation Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:59:56 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  12. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:53:38 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:53:38 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  13. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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.

    1/2
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Mastodon Brought a Protocol to a Product Fight
      from Medium
      Mastodon vs. Twitter? Come on…
  14. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 14:25:03 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    • Brandon Hall
    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.
    In conversation Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 14:25:03 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  15. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 16:31:07 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://freeradical.zone/@Guslanzetta/109576301598478337

    Claim that #Twitter had a breach which exposed 400,000,000 usernames and related information
    In conversation Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 16:31:07 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  16. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 14:39:32 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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.
    In conversation Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 14:39:32 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  17. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 12:18:23 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #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.
    In conversation Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 12:18:23 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. What’s new in Vivaldi | Vivaldi Browser
      from Vivaldi Browser
  18. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 23:26:36 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/ [www wired com]

    Wired: #Mastodon features that #Twitter should steal
    In conversation Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 23:26:36 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
      from WIRED
      Elon Musk's platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.
  19. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 22:27:57 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    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.
    In conversation Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 22:27:57 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  20. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 13:06:19 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    I saw this screenshot that claims to be #Twitter's new policy on accounts promoting competing #socnet s. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/288977
    In conversation Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 13:06:19 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
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