I left Twitter one week after Musk took control and I opened a Mastodon account. I found you there yesterday Judd! I have heard the argument to stay on Twitter and fight. Thing is, nobody is listening on Twitter and no one’s mind is being changed on anything. It is just shouting, anger, lies and crude, vile comments made about others. I…
I left Twitter one week after Musk took control and I opened a Mastodon account. I found you there yesterday Judd! I have heard the argument to stay on Twitter and fight. Thing is, nobody is listening on Twitter and no one’s mind is being changed on anything. It is just shouting, anger, lies and crude, vile comments made about others. I don’t want to support that environment in any way. More members means more advertising dollars. I deleted my account. I wish more media, newsletters, authors would leave Twitter for the same reason. Take as many as you can with you and let it become irrelevant.
Mastodon is none of that. Takes a minute to figure out but it is a much better atmosphere. I find more of my former Twitter follows everyday. I miss the international accounts I followed for info on what’s going on in their country and their perspective on ours. I did find the reporter in Ukraine I really like who keeps me updated on the war.
Is Mastodon also ad-supported? If so it may go down the same sewer hole as Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and (dare I say) Substack?
Problem is IDPs (Identity Providers) -- so dang easy not to have to remember all those pesky Passwords and Site URLs, just let {Google|Facebook|Microsoft|Twitter} remember who I am and then SingleSignOn my life (and ad history) away!
Remember how shocked we were when BankO'Merica -- or was it WelchFargo -- started telling us it was OK to let them collect our thumbprints? Then it was Retina Scans (but only on certain iPhones). Then all of a sudden, a Tidal Wave of Social Media outlets offering to conveniently store your identity, "securely", somewhere in a cloud, you knew not where.
How many times has Google been hacked by "state actors" or even "pre-teen hackers"? Facebook? Microsoft? Twitter (esp. after their security dept was gutted by Musk)? Well, we'll probably never know the exact number, but we are just "ah, well, hope a fascist dictator or wannabe like Musk never takes over" ... sigh. The hackers know what an easy gold streak this information stuff is to mine! And when we see Musk's true colors (evicting journalists he doesn't like -- genius!), it's already too late, they have our identity, because Social Media has become this generation's Fast Food -- we know it's bad for us, but it sure is a CONVENIENT truthy-social way to belch political and conspiratorial lies to the uni/meta-verse! Don't even have to remember a password!
I left Twitter one week after Musk took control and I opened a Mastodon account. I found you there yesterday Judd! I have heard the argument to stay on Twitter and fight. Thing is, nobody is listening on Twitter and no one’s mind is being changed on anything. It is just shouting, anger, lies and crude, vile comments made about others. I don’t want to support that environment in any way. More members means more advertising dollars. I deleted my account. I wish more media, newsletters, authors would leave Twitter for the same reason. Take as many as you can with you and let it become irrelevant.
Mastodon is none of that. Takes a minute to figure out but it is a much better atmosphere. I find more of my former Twitter follows everyday. I miss the international accounts I followed for info on what’s going on in their country and their perspective on ours. I did find the reporter in Ukraine I really like who keeps me updated on the war.
Is Mastodon also ad-supported? If so it may go down the same sewer hole as Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and (dare I say) Substack?
Problem is IDPs (Identity Providers) -- so dang easy not to have to remember all those pesky Passwords and Site URLs, just let {Google|Facebook|Microsoft|Twitter} remember who I am and then SingleSignOn my life (and ad history) away!
Remember how shocked we were when BankO'Merica -- or was it WelchFargo -- started telling us it was OK to let them collect our thumbprints? Then it was Retina Scans (but only on certain iPhones). Then all of a sudden, a Tidal Wave of Social Media outlets offering to conveniently store your identity, "securely", somewhere in a cloud, you knew not where.
How many times has Google been hacked by "state actors" or even "pre-teen hackers"? Facebook? Microsoft? Twitter (esp. after their security dept was gutted by Musk)? Well, we'll probably never know the exact number, but we are just "ah, well, hope a fascist dictator or wannabe like Musk never takes over" ... sigh. The hackers know what an easy gold streak this information stuff is to mine! And when we see Musk's true colors (evicting journalists he doesn't like -- genius!), it's already too late, they have our identity, because Social Media has become this generation's Fast Food -- we know it's bad for us, but it sure is a CONVENIENT truthy-social way to belch political and conspiratorial lies to the uni/meta-verse! Don't even have to remember a password!
Not ad supported. But I get your point on companies collecting our identities and information.