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Jay Baker (they/he) @MediaActivist@todon.eu
1y
So it seems a heck of a lot of high-profile folks are suddenly deciding to leave Elon Musk's Nazi platform. Again. But hey don't worry, they really mean it this time! And Twitter 2.0, Bluesky, is so very special (the cryptobros said so!) and while its appeal is that it emulates Twitter 1.0, it is totally immune to the fate of Twitter 1.0. Right? And remember: that Mastodon stuff is confusing, and its lack of ads and algorithms make everyone seem more on an equal footing, with celebrity profiles treated as just another account. And who wants that, huh?
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
1y
@MediaActivist I'm genuinely happy there's some space for this conversation: what are some upsides with Mastodon compared to using and reading blogs through RSS 2.0/Atom feeds, in the sense that one could read their friends' blog feeds instead of their Mastodon/Instagram feeds, and why would one spend about 8 hours learning Mastodon instead of Emacs, Git, and Skribilo?

An answer would be for journalists and public servants: because the brain stimulation reward feedback loop only results in metrics that are irrelevant to their jobs, but still has some power on them, I think it could be useful to offload the nefarious effects of eg. the Shanghai ranking system (speaking about imposter syndromes for example). I'm going out on a limb here, but talking about the redaction of longform documents it might train them into reaching a very abstract state of mind more easily.

Another reason would be the lack of P2P video support from RSS 2.0/Atom feed readers, because they aren't designed to run arbitrary third-party code. For anything heavier than podcasts, this may be a drawback!

From a user perspective, do you see any other advantages to using Mastodon instead of blogging? Do you think the ActivityPub community should focus more on specific use cases?
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