12/30/2023 0 Comments Tweetbot mute wordsThe local timeline shows all the public and unlisted posts on your instance, and can be a lot of fun to read and find new accounts to follow. My particular instance is focused on free open source software and technology, which aligns with what I like, but there are other instances that might be better if you’re more into other things like art, or just talking in general. I like that posts seem more ephemeral on Mastodon than on Twitter, which I guess makes posting easier for me? Maybe it’s just the novelty of it. I don’t really mind the lack of posts migration, as I have auto delete turned on anyway. The only thing that doesn’t come with you when you migrate are your posts, but your following list, followers, mute filters, block lists, and bookmarks all come with you, and you can set up a redirect on your old account. But I haven’t felt the desire to follow any of those mirrors yet.Īt first I had some decision paralysis when joining, because there are so many instances, but in reality, it doesn’t really matter which one you join because you can easily migrate your account to another instance later. There’s multiple Twitter bridges available, which are instances run solely to copy public Twitter profiles and tweets over to the network, so I can still keep up with tweets even if I can’t easily interact with them. Very few of the people I know on Twitter are on Mastodon, and that hasn’t been a big issue. Mastodon has an auto-delete feature you can set up, which I’m a big fan of. I’ve found myself reblogging/boosting posts (retweeting). Most people seem eager to interact in a way that reminds me of Twitter in 2010-2013. It’s most likely due to the instance I’m on, but I haven’t seen anything near the amount of vitriol I’ve seen on Twitter. I took a step back a few weeks ago and realized I have to do a lot just to be able to use Twitter and keep my sanity. I stopped retweeting anything several years ago because I don’t like seeing retweets from the people I follow.Īnd timeline position sync has become crucial for me, as it shows how many unread tweets are in my feed and helps me curb my usage once they’re all read, instead of compulsively scrolling and refreshing all the time. Tweetbot has a chronological timeline, I set up a filter to hide retweets and quote tweets, I can pick any of my lists as the primary timeline, easier muting of terms with regex. This has resulted in multiple year-long Twitter breaks for me, and using a third-party Twitter client (Tweetbot) to fix the issues I had with the official experience. All of which is amplified by the algorithmic timeline that they added in 2015, and keep forcing onto their users with “accidental” removal of the chronological timeline. Outrage over this and that, sometimes warranted, sometimes not, sometimes just outrage for the sake of outrage. I’m burned out on Twitter, and I think it’s just a result of being active on the service for too long (since 2010). Most posts I’ve read from people who have made the switch spend a good 2-5 paragraphs on how bad Twitter was for them, and there won’t be an exception here, but I will say that many of the same problems that affect Twitter can very easily affect Mastodon, if we let it happen. The obligatory ‘Twitter is bad’ manifesto As a result, I’ve been having a lot of fun using Mastodon, but it’s also caused some reflection on my Twitter usage. This time is different - several of my new friends I’ve met through blogging are on Mastodon, and indeed, the instance I’m on is run by one of them, Kev Quirk. There was a ton of activity at the time, but I didn’t stick with it because nobody I knew was using it. My previous attempt was in 2017, about a year after the project launched. This is my second attempt at using Mastodon. Here you can see the major projects that currently make up the Fediverse. Update 5-2-22: Multiple readers would like me to clarify that Mastodon is not the Fediverse, but rather just one part of the Fediverse. I will just call this ’the network’ or simply, Mastodon. They call this network of instances “The Fediverse”, but the whole ‘verse thing is so overused these days. It also has almost twice the character limit (500), and the desktop web interface is inspired by TweetDeck. If you’re not familiar with Mastodon, think Twitter but user-hosted and each instance can be connected together, and users can follow each other across instances. Following the news that one of SNL’s worst hosts bought their way into Twitter, I joined the Fosstodon instance of Mastodon last week.
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