I've said before that what makes Twitter worthwhile is it empowers rawness and collaboration. It has offered a modern equivalent of the way people used to meet at cafes to discuss ideas while they were unpolished.
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It allows for details that don't make the cut in published journalism to be shared. It allows collaborative research. These are all *people* features not platform features
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actually most mastodon instances just straight up ban nazis and it has content warnings and toot-specific privacy settings, most of the problems of twitter are solved over there because it's run by people who care about solving them
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these aren't particularly technical things, they're social solutions to social problems. Twitter's problems aren't some sort of immutable property of humans
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That’s... the point of this thread. But I disagree on the effectiveness at Mastodon to handle its problems at scale, which it’s technology makes harder, not easier
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it might make me able to not have my art all just suddenly disappear for no reason though
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Twidere works over there, though
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But at least it doesn't have God-awful ads.
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Pro tip: I blocked every sponsored tweet I saw for an evening and just don't see ads anymore
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These banning just prove twitter doesn't know what's good about its platform (the people, ease of use) and what's the issue (a broken system for harassment, misinformation, overall sensory overload)
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I hope people are moving on because they are legitimately tired of it, not to try and "fix twitter"
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Thank you for this. Wonderfully articulated.
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well, I see one of the biggest problems of twitter, thatbit is centralized and therefor can be controled by 1 company
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Emily it’s like you got a zip of my braindump. So well stated.
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