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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 4 Jan 2018
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      I wish Mastodon supported “this instance” as a privacy scope.

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    2. Stewart Brand‏Verified account @stewartbrand 4 Jan 2018
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      Unpack that a bit, Patrick?

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 5 Jan 2018
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      Mastodon is an open source, self-hostable Twitter clone. Since Twitter itself is so beset with outrage and politics these days, have been considering setting up a separate place for the people I know who want something different. I don’t know if it would work.

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        2. Stewart Brand‏Verified account @stewartbrand 5 Jan 2018
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          Mastodon sounds good. What do you mean by “this instance”? And “privacy scope”?

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        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 5 Jan 2018
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          This instance — a particular self-hosted Mastodon server. (It’s federated; a la email, there’s a server-to-server protocol for propagating messages between instances.) Privacy scope: you can set per-“tweet” visibility settings. (Anyone, only followers, etc.)

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        2. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 5 Jan 2018
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          Do you think that dual twitter accounts: a protected communication account, and a write-only outreach account might work?

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        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 5 Jan 2018
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          Maybe, yeah, but I think it’s psychologically hard to separate it all...

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        2. Drew Breunig‏ @dbreunig 5 Jan 2018
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          This is going to be a major trend this year. People creating 'local' spaces for which humans are better suited. There's a reason Slack is succeeding, private groups are Facebook's most loved feature, and email newsletters and podcasts are thriving.

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        3. Drew Breunig‏ @dbreunig 5 Jan 2018
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          A "great retreat" will occur this year or next, once there is an easily accessible set of tools to facilitate it en masse.

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