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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

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[-] Oceane@social.coop 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@ajsadauskas @sebsauvage @fediverse I've met a transgender person who claimed that Twitter was a decent place when you could use bots to block everyone liking a mean post or following its poster, and it's probably still much more relevant than Mastodon in terms of anime-related communities, for some part because Mastodon doesn't have an equivalent to QRTs while animes are still (hopefully) driven by Asian communities, so Musk banning bots is objectively a bad thing…

[-] Oceane@social.coop 1 points 2 years ago

@fediverse @sebsauvage @ajsadauskas But it means that even community-provided features don't work on Twitter now. Maybe this person should join a community-run network but I'm also not sure that Mastodon would be as community-run as we pretend, at least it doesn't seem to be Gargron's point of view https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter

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