The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you’d expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there’s no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call “tweets”—let’s face it, it’s a bit of a silly name that’s difficult to take seriously).
“Tweets” can’t be covered by a content warning. There’s no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There’s no way to set up your own instance, and you’re basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there’s no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can’t de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn’t Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn’t find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
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I will never not boost this whenever I come across this post, it’s so good. And read it again in full measure for the enjoyment of it. Thank you!@ajsadauskas @fediverse @donmelton Twitter sounds too confusing. How do you even view a toot there without it getting absorbed into some advertising scheme? Maybe I’ll try again when they get their act together.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I don’t know if the bad parts of twitter have gotten any worse, but the good parts have certainly gotten worse. It’s just not as good for breaking stories as it once was.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse while amusing in itself, I think that framing things this way is important too, because it lets us shed the veneer that the status quo is the thing people need to match before any new ideas are allowed to be examined
@ajsadauskas @fediverse Is Twitter seriously thinking of competing with Mastodon?
@ajsadauskas @fediverse The problem with Twitter only having one instance also is: Imagine if some douchebag bought it and tried running it into the ground by inviting all the fashs back in, replacing replacing the Twitter logo with cryptocurrency memes and other weird bs. You couldn’t even switch to another instance if a random weirdo like that took over …
@ajsadauskas @fediverse Ok, that’s cute.
Thanks for editing this, it gave me a good chuckle when it popped up on my feed this morning.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse this is brilliant
But Twitter is improving! It already copied several great features from Mastodon, like no italics and bold markup, “tweets” in reverse chrono order, full-size image previews instead of thumbnails (and always at the end), removed the “dislike” button…
It even went one better than Mastodon and limited tweets to 250 chars instead of 500.
Another Mastodon feature that Twitter still lacks is showing the same boosted toot, in full, every time someone boosts it.
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Gasp. And do they offer an option to block all blue subscribers? Of course not, why am I asking…
@ajsadauskas @fediverse The ability to “edit” is something Twitter reserves to paying customers. Musk is never one to resist picking up a dime that drops on the pavement…
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Most of the people I know who use Twitter try it for a short time and tend to bounce off it. I can’t see it gaining enough critical mass to be relevant.Also, since my work workplace expect me to be on it, it kind of has that LinkedIn vibe where you’re not really supposed to have fun there, but just talk about work based topics.
their mascot is also kinda shit
@ajsadauskas @fediverse one killer feature is a recommendation algorithm… or it was… it seems that the owner pulled the plug this week or last week to save server costs, because now my Twitter homepage stopped having anyone I wasn’t following. Very bad business decision by the owners. Concerning. !
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I’m confused. What billionaire owns Mastodon???
