Mastodon is still going. And a ton of people went to it over the weekend thanks to what Musk did with Twitter. Hopefully some of them will stay.

Fair enough. Twitter was a hard sell for me at first, too. I thought the whole “micro blogging” thing was stupid and that no intelligent thought could be whittled down to 140 characters. Maybe I’m not the targeted audience to what the “people” want.

Yeah, I’m sad that Mastodon didn’t catch on better, it’s run by the users. Jack Dorsey is just another brand of asshole billionaire.

No. But the fact that Insta is overwhelmingly geared to pictures and video means that people posting text aren’t going to get any visibility. If that was a consideration Meta wouldn’t have resurrected Threads and Twitter wouldn’t have been as popular as it became.

He’s now demonstrating why it’s a great idea to have a team that manages the CEO.  They filter out the idiocy before it reaches the public.

Another change Muskrat made is to restrict even the reading of tweets to people with accounts.

Yep. Their Google Cloud contract expired June 30, throttling began July 1.

Decentralized platforms have been in vogue for a few years. Mastodon has been around since 2016 and is the social media I’d want everyone to be using because it’s nonprofit. Unfortunately, as another commenter said, the onboarding is too difficult for the average person, and the UX could use some work. 

Mastodon’s biggest problem is that it’s kind of a pain in the ass to sign up for and use and the average user is not going to deal with that. That means that, unless there’s a significant fundamental change in that aspect, people will slough off to something else; if none of the new ones catch on, they’ll move to…

Proof that rich people aren’t worthy of praise or even attention.

Didn’t they stop paying their Google Cloud service fees recently, only to start paying them again (and then this pops up)?

hahaha so write a better article and get it published somewhere people care. No comment is in itself a comment and frequently written as such by ‘real journalists’. Real journalists don’t ‘just find out’ they take the answers provided.

and the rest of your comment is just as worthless.

Ahh no they havent been. People knew Musk was going to trash Twitter, and he has. They knew he let back in trolls and traitors, and he has. They knew he would attempt to monetize it and fail badly, which has come to pass. Pretty much no one thought it was just going to stop.. it was always going to fade away steadily…

Everytime I click on Twitter link or embed I get some weird error or endless redirect. So it is not a problem for me. I stopped clicking on this shit already.

Following discussions over on Fark and Ars Technica, I think that I understand that about the same time that Twit suddenly started limiting user views, they had a contract change with Google Services?  They hadn’t paid up, so now their rates were different?  Any more on that?

I feel like whichever one opens up fully to the public first, whether its Bluesky, Spill, or whatever Meta is doing will be the one that takes over. Reading the room it seems like most everyone is ready to leave, there just hasn’t been an agreed upon landing spot yet. Wherever the large follower accounts and…

I guess all journalists should check in with you first to determine what questions their article should answer.

At the moment, that tomorrow looks like this:

I’m not sure what show you’ve been watching, but it’s pretty much exaxtly on the slow downfall timeline everyone predicted.

Are we not allowed to hope for a better tomorrow?