Comment by eponeponepon | Hacker News Reader

Comment by eponeponepon | Hacker News Reader

I really want to embrace this - but I'm still not able to make up my mind whether I object more to Twitter the company or to the whole concept that Mastodon is implementing.

(edit: not that Twitter themselves have done much to offend me - "Twitter the company" above is more of a stand-in for commercial social networking companies at large)

2nd edit because I've not had my coffee yet and didn't explain myself properly: the "whole concept" that I'm talking about is, I guess, what people used to call 'microblogging' - a service of which Twitter is the holotype; as far as I can see, the real utility of it is in its constant presence via a phone app, but I am not sure if I want to do that. I definitely don't want to have that in my life by joining Twitter, but I can't make up my mind whether my dislike is more about the companies providing the service, or more about the generic service itself.

Does that make better sense? :)

I don't mind the company, but I don't like that a product of a single company has become the defacto communication channel for tech people.

In many gatherings speakers identify themselves by twitter handles instead of email. Do you think that is sound?

  In many gatherings speakers identify themselves 
  by twitter handles instead of email. Do you think 
  that is sound?

No, I very much dislike that. Part of it is that I am (by choice, for sure), not able to use that information, but part of it is, as you say, an objection to a single commercial offering having that position.

I find that 500 chars limit is enough space to express ideas, and facilitates meaningful discussions around them.

> or to the whole concept that Mastodon is implementing.

Huh?

You can have a user on any Mastadon or GNUSocial server, and communicate with any other user on any other Mastadon/GNUSocial server.

So, no get tied in there.

That's the main complaint I see with people and social networks... So can you expand?

Edited my post. More coffee needed, evidently.

What do you object to about the concept of what Mastodon is implementing?

See 2nd edit above :)

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