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Probably going to slowly move over to mastodon: mastodon.social/@cedricchin The argument presented here is compelling, and I urge you to consider it: shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtal (I used to think Twitter as an outrage machine was manageable. I’m no longer sure of this.)

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But how does mastodon solve any of this?

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codesections.com/blog/mastodon- Not at all proven, but for now, it's worth watching. The experiment is likely to keep living, since it's 100% open source + open protocols (ActivityPub)

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Retweets vs Boost is a weak arguments. I'm sure people will find a way to "comment" on things. Also won't the distributed locale thing only help to increase Confirmation Bias and Silo-ism?

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Off the top of my head: You can restrict the degree to which your post spreads. (Local only, followers only, federated). Confirmation bias and silo-ism is like small forums: much better than outrage spirals, which slowly converts more of the network to outrage machines.

1:47 AM · Aug 19, 2018Twitter Web Client

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But that's in theory, of course. The federated model is more akin to email. So you *can* create a private mailing group ala Google Groups. Most people would engage in the Fediverse, though.

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I think the key thing for me is the faith in the open source model. With Twitter, you're waiting for a corp to fix things. With Mastodon, if you're not pleased, you can always implement the ActivityPub and OStatus protocols and plug into the fediverse with your own take.