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I will never not boost this whenever I come across this post, it's so good. And read it again in full measure for the enjoyment of it. Thank you!

@ajsadauskas @fediverse while amusing in itself, I think that framing things this way is important too, because it lets us shed the veneer that the status quo is the thing people need to match before any new ideas are allowed to be examined

@ajsadauskas bwahahahah

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@ajsadauskas @fediverse I don’t know if the bad parts of twitter have gotten any worse, but the good parts have certainly gotten worse. It’s just not as good for breaking stories as it once was.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse The problem with Twitter only having one instance also is: Imagine if some douchebag bought it and tried running it into the ground by inviting all the fashs back in, replacing replacing the Twitter logo with cryptocurrency memes and other weird bs. You couldn't even switch to another instance if a random weirdo like that took over …

@ajsadauskas @fediverse Lol. Well done!

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But Twitter is improving! It already copied several great features from Mastodon, like no italics and bold markup, "tweets" in reverse chrono order, full-size image previews instead of thumbnails (and always at the end), removed the "dislike" button...

It even went one better than Mastodon and limited tweets to 250 chars instead of 500.

Another Mastodon feature that Twitter still lacks is showing the same boosted toot, in full, every time someone boosts it.

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Most of the people I know who use Twitter try it for a short time and tend to bounce off it. I can't see it gaining enough critical mass to be relevant.

Also, since my work workplace expect me to be on it, it kind of has that LinkedIn vibe where you're not really supposed to have fun there, but just talk about work based topics.

#TwitterIsCrumbling

@ajsadauskas @fediverse The ability to "edit" is something Twitter reserves to paying customers. Musk is never one to resist picking up a dime that drops on the pavement...

@ajsadauskas @fediverse Ok, that’s cute.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse this is brilliant

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their mascot is also kinda shit

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Thanks for editing this, it gave me a good chuckle when it popped up on my feed this morning.

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@ajsadauskas @fediverse 👏

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I am the most non-tech person I know. Only bought an Android phone a few years ago because it was impossible not to have a number. Even then, I only use it for photos and as an alarm clock. Know my way round my beloved MacBook Pro because I've had them for decades, but anything else and I'm all at sea.

Even I managed to get my head round Mastodon after being kicked off twitter.

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Well saideth, 💬

We are the [sigh] Borg, Resistance is feudal. We will be a sim mutilated …

The Force is with us. 🪟🪬🧿

@ajsadauskas @fediverse legitimately never enjoyed Twitter or saw the appeal - Mastodon immediately made sense to me.

@ajsadauskas This just got boosted into my timeline (trunk?) and I laughed really hard.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse From day 1, I always said that Twitter had twits, not tweets. In 15 years, nothing has changed my opinion in that regard.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse I think i am still having a problem with you saying twitter being a replacement for Mastodon. Twitter started in 2000 and Mastodon started in 2016. What I think you are saying is that Twitter needs to add more features to catch up to Mastodon.

@ajsadauskas This is fabulous! :)

@ajsadauskas @fediverse Didn't you mix Twitter and Mastodon up, or is this just me?

@ajsadauskas @fediverse Absolutely *chefs kiss* superb.

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Maybe someone could buy it in a fit of affluenza-induced mania, and then run around the datacenter kicking things?

@ajsadauskas @fediverse Well played.

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They call their toots Tweets but then have a dog as an emblem, Now Mastodon having a dog tooting would work well, My dog toots all the time.

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Go on...

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@ajsadauskas @fediverse I’m confused. What billionaire owns Mastodon???

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@ajsadauskas @fediverse “Tweet”. STOOPID

@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…

@ajsadauskas This so funny and it hits the nail on the head. I notice there is copy-paste plagiarism going on here whoever actually did first write this, possibly someone in this thread, should do a substack or Medium and I will be first in line to sign up.

@ajsadauskas While obviously not as important as the other features you mentioned, account verification against your own website is another useful feature Twitter doesn’t have yet. I’m sure they could come up with a clever alternative though. #twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

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I started reading it very skeptically until I realised I had unconsciously mixed up Twitter and Mastodon in your statements.
Totally agree 100% once I cleared that up ^^
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