Innovation Scientist of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the American Astronomical Society. Mastodon test: @pkgw@mastodon.world. He/him.
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20 Nov 2022
I seriously wasn't expecting to feel this decisive about it, but if Trump is on here I'm not very interested in hanging around. I'm leaving the app installed but am gonna default to Mastodon: @pkgw@mastodon.world. See you there?
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18 Nov 2022
From my brief experience thus far, it looks like Mastodon and Twitter are very similar in features (not counting the whole "federation" model). The one novelty I've noticed is built-in content warning support.
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18 Nov 2022
For every, er, toot you can enter some brief text for a content warning. It shows up in the UI with a "show more" prompt to reveal the actual content.
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18 Nov 2022
The way it's done it looks like you could (ab)use the feature to act as a basic subject line. No sense as to whether that's considered OK or not.
18 Nov 2022
OK, today I am going to give Mastodon a spin! I'll post some notes and commentary for my astro-folks as I go.
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18 Nov 2022
Looks like the app doesn't know how to use the phone's camera, so, oh no, I have to post a saved doggie pic instead of a fresh one. Let's see how it embeds in Twitter!
mastodon.world/@pkgw/1093657…
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18 Nov 2022
I've been advised by a few people that Tusky is probably the client to use on Android. So, I'll switch to that.
18 Nov 2022
Mastodon note: looks like I should have used fedifinder.glitch.me as a tool to pick up Mastodon handles from my Twitter follows. Works pretty nicely and found a few that I missed!
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18 Nov 2022
I'd love to read a good discussion of why there seems to be no *for-profit* Twitter competitor that's sprung up. Seems like a no-brainer play in a world that's awash in capital?
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18 Nov 2022
(When you're the Innovation Scientist, you can tell yourself that tweeting about Mastodon is service work.)
18 Nov 2022
FWIW, I mostly agree with Fake Twitter Nixon. The wheels are falling off the bus here but the Twitter servers are not going to literally explode. And I'm no galaxy-brain but if you spend $44bil on something, you're probably gonna give it more than a few weeks to turn around.
18 Nov 2022
I understand feeling the lights will go out. And I believe the experts who say it will. But I don’t think that will be the end, because there is no viable alternative.
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18 Nov 2022
(Where "turn around" in this case is changing in a way that I think is very bad! You know what I mean.)
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