Post Ab1g2H5UIEd0OWzUC8 by nikol@mastodon.bida.im
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 (DIR) Post #Ab1g2H5UIEd0OWzUC8 by nikol@mastodon.bida.im
       2023-10-21T11:12:00Z
       
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       I’ve now been using it for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be. If you have been remotely interested in Mastodon but had reservations about joining because you thought it would be difficult, confusing, or otherwise annoying, it is not. Here is how you make a #Mastodon account: You go to this website. You agree to not share #disinformation or be an asshole. You select a username and password. Then, you have a Mastodon account. https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111267677411898394>>
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab1g2I5Aaty5TpqkL2 by nikol@mastodon.bida.im
       2023-10-21T11:16:29Z
       
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       So, Mastodon: 1.   Not difficult to sign up for 2.   Not difficult to use 3.   Has an app like every other social media network 4.   Not owned by world’s richest man 5.   Not owned by a company whose main platform has been credibly accused of facilitating genocide by the United Nations 6.   Not funded by the guy who made the last place, which sold itself to the world’s richest man 7.   Doesn’t have a crypto thing going on 8.   Free and open source 9.   Administered by a crowdfunded nonprofit10.  Decentralized, portable, and interoperableI’m writing this because it has been weird to watch some journalists and people who are fully aware of Facebook’s catastrophic history with things like disinformation, https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/>>
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab1g2UuetIHhH022G8 by nikol@mastodon.bida.im
       2023-10-21T11:22:40Z
       
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       algorithmic dark patterns and ever-shifting reward systems, user monetization and tracking, disastrous forays into the news business, shoddy content moderation, and complicity in a genocide become the world’s largest Mark Zuckerberg / Threads simps because he’s a little less awful than Elon Musk. These same people who are chit-chatting with Mark about his MMA are chastising their colleagues who choose to stay on “Xitter,” “the Bird Site,” “the hell site,” etc because their audience is there.#internet #socialMedia #social