Posts by joshtpm@journa.host
(DIR) Post #APMTo7zllXzy4YXz3w by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-07T12:35:39Z
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So two questions I have about the Mastodon migration. We're about to learn how much highly watched accounts drive Twitter's broader audience. Here's what I mean. I am stunned at how many people I know have already set up Mastodon accounts in the last 48 hrs. Like it seems like almost everyone I know has set one up. Probably I'm not going to notice a lot who haven't yet. I'm mainly reacting to how many I see. But still, it's a huge number.
(DIR) Post #APMTo8lGuvzoRslv6W by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-07T12:38:18Z
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2/ The people I'm talking about tend to be very high follower accounts - at least in the news/politics space. But on their own they account for a minuscule number of accounts. A few hundred people. Totally meaningless in terms of Twitters scale. So we're about to see whether it just doesn't matter at all, or whether that small number of high profile accounts pulls over a big chunk of audience or whether no one cares and it's just a few hundred people talking to each other. I don't know.
(DIR) Post #APMTo9RoMm1WZoftPU by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-07T12:41:20Z
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3/ The other issue is journo/news/politics Twitter is just one thing and not terribly large. I'm always fascinated by how many Twitters there are. Virology twitter, History Twitter, Black Twitter, Tech Twitter, Comics Twitter. There are whole ecosystems of Twitter. And I have zero idea whether anything comparable is happening in those ecosystems. I'm curious to find out the answers to both.
(DIR) Post #APMToA328NnWRG5cQa by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-07T12:47:42Z
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4/ Realize I didn't properly explain the three options about a) It's just all the people I know congregating here but that's it. No broader migration. b) migration of high profile accounts spurs mass migration. c) high profile accounts migrate, no one cares and high profile accounts return to Twitter to a chorus of sad trombones.
(DIR) Post #APNUbYDMers4UblM2K by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-08T00:33:54Z
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At least until recently Twitter was the rare platform that allowed you to get close to a reverse chron feed. They didn’t make it easy but you could do it. It was things like that, lack of a killer instinct that kept it financially marginal. Though some of us know it from a tech perspective it is difficult to grasp the psychological impact of an algorithmic feed. It’s very literally meant to provoke, to agitate. A chronological feed doesn’t do that. That is a big part of the different experience.
(DIR) Post #APNVw8YfLL7mxL6f4a by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-08T00:24:54Z
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@mosheroperandi @inklings yes, I put the address in my twitter bio yesterday on your suggestion
(DIR) Post #APPF7NDFt79wggmepc by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-08T21:02:44Z
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I confess I'm not clear how to operate here if literally every mention of politics requires a content warning. This is an existing community with its own mores which I totally respect. So I want to be clear I'm not saying there's a problem with that or that it should change. But hard to know precisely how to operate in that mode if that's a lot of what you talk about.
(DIR) Post #APPvycaLezbXmretDk by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-08T22:36:28Z
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@adamdavidson do you have a sense of why other instances are blocking?
(DIR) Post #APPvydbRsO4wwZBHZg by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-08T22:50:06Z
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@adamdavidson that last point seems very reasonable. I get the sense the platform just isn't for me. Probably makes sense to bow out.
(DIR) Post #APx86AOa33cemmUj9E by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-24T22:55:33Z
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I’d been away from here for a few days. And the increased energy, critical mass is palpable
(DIR) Post #APyLfTi3ivgTNwjXzU by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-11-25T18:43:25Z
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My take on Musk's trajectory over the last four weeks. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musk-and-the-narcissism-radicalization-maelstrom/sharetoken/Zs4zc5BXA9Et
(DIR) Post #AQkU0IpNVFcuwBfs8G by joshtpm@journa.host
2022-12-18T19:05:14Z
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Watching this all unfold it’s like a mix of a Howard Hughes biopic and the Truman Show. You get to the see the breakdown unfold on camera, in real time. He is quite literally live tweeting it.