Conversation

This is actually a good test. If a little friction stops you you’ll end up with twitter “alternatives” that offer distinctions without differences. It’s not a coincidence that the 2 serious options, mastodon and farcaster, have friction.
Quote Tweet
It’s insane to me that people are pretending Mastodon doesn’t have massive friction for sign up and use. The entire premise of the consumer-internet age, for good and ill, was based on reducing friction as much as possible—especially at signup. You are all kidding yourselves.
4
123
The friction exists because both make tech tradeoffs that solve for something other than frictionless convenience. If that doesn’t interest you, and it’s just Elon-related flouncing, you might as well just stay here. Anywhere you could conveniently go will have similar issues.
2
51
Both solve for distributed+decentralized authority with different ideas. Mastodon is an older design, pre-blockchain federation. FC is newer and more a have-cake/eat-it-too design that retains some global affordances which mastodon has to sacrifice.
3
27
One of the things both achieve is making it significantly harder for a “bad emperor” problem to occur at a technical level. Whether you think Elon is good or bad there is no doubt he’s an emperor. Every other conventional platform is also set up for monarchist capture.
1
38
Mastodon allows you to spin up your own instance if the one you’re on sprouts a mini-Elon. FC is promising something called a hub which will be like your own email server. They don’t address the “good” or “bad” part. They address the “emperor” part. Not perfect, but something.
1
31
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more