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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 bwahahahah

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@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 @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 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.

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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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@ajsadauskas @fediverse Lol. Well done!

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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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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.

@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 “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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@ajsadauskas @fediverse fun read but when someone toots and calls tweets as silly... 😛
just kidding, don;t wanna get trampled. also shouldn't they be "barking" now with the new logo that they got recently. i only know form what someone had posted here.

"barking up the wrong post" would be a common there probably

@ajsadauskas @fediverse as someone who’s been on both for a little while (been on mast less time) I got a laugh at this!

@ajsadauskas @fediverse one killer feature is a recommendation algorithm... or it was... it seems that the owner pulled the plug this week or last week to save server costs, because now my Twitter homepage stopped having anyone I wasn't following. Very bad business decision by the owners. Concerning. !

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Mastodon and Twitter are very different beasts. Neither fills the other's niche. I used Twitter for one thing, and that one thing is completely impossible on Mastodon.

(People see a new, strange, but exciting sport on television that they'd not previously heard of, and tweet about it. I loved searching those tweets, and occasionally interacting with the people. Mastodon does not allow this, for no good reason.)

#WorldChaseTag #Twitter

@ajsadauskas @fediverse I originally heard of Mastodon through a friend. They were talking about how they were reluctant to join because a trusted friend informed them there was a lot of rampant racism and bigotry. However, another person replied to their tweet that Mastodon is decentralized, so those instances of bigotry were not indicative of the platform as a whole. I joined the Project Mushroom server and have enjoyed Mastodon since.

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Might be time for a paradigm shift.

https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/

@ajsadauskas @fediverse I respond to all Twitter ads saying that the security on Twitter is now so poor I have to assume all ads are fraudulent

@ajsadauskas @fediverse 🙏🏻😂

@ajsadauskas @fediverse twitter did have a bookmark feature – obviously it doesn’t now since it doesn’t exist since I left it, but when I was there and it existed my bookmarks were the precious thing of value I used to look after