Can we channel all the anger and frustration this has caused into switching to Mastodon/GNU Social?
Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.
Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.
I've been quite active on Mastodon (@loke@functional.cafe) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot.
It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter ever could.
The biggest problem with Mastodon at the moment is discoverability. It takes some effort finding the right people to follow but I've found a reasonable group of people who are interested in things like Emacs, Lisp etc.
A lot of people tend to boost interesting posts, and following people whose posts gets boosted allows you to grow your follow list with interesting posts.
Unfollowing people that keeps posting uninteresting things is also important of course.
Btw: Isn't ActivityPub the new OStatus?
Looking an Mastadon's policies makes me give up hope: https://mastodon.social/about/more