• @heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    What I don’t get is why anyone would ever choose commercial social media again given there are Activity Pub clones for practically everything now, where you aren’t the product. So many people learned nothing from the ongoing Twitter debacle and the zillion Facebook privacy scandals apparently.

    • @tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1823 days ago

      Try using Mastodon and Bluesky at the same time. Bluesky is a twitter clone and perfect replacement. Mastodon is an excellent micro-blogging platform, but has none of the features people actually liked about twitter. People love recommendation algorithms and quote tweet dunking. That’s the core of what it’s all about. Mastodon is glorified RSS, which is great if you miss those days.

      • @Kache@lemm.ee
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        823 days ago

        Perhaps open federated systems should have recommendation algos too, just optional and open

        • Doesn’t PeerTube already do this? Maybe I am mistaken.

          In any case there’s nothing inherently preventing this, just because a platform gets some of its data from other servers instead of its own users, it doesn’t mean it can’t use that data to run a recommendation algorithm.

          I don’t want it though. I prefer choosing for myself what sources I want to get information from instead of getting any of it recommended by the platform operator.

      • calm.like.a.bomb
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        223 days ago

        fuck people liking shit … and fuck people going back to american corporate tech… yes, I’m mad like that.

      • @heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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        123 days ago

        Honestly I have used Blue Sky and Mastodon and Mastodon feels a lot more elegant to me, personally.

      • Andy
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        723 days ago

        I thought it was built on activity pub.

        I’m gonna go over to my Mastodon account and try to reply to you. One sec.