It seems a lot more “de-centralized” than the rest of the 'verse, including lemmy & Mastodon, which i more poly-centric.

  • besselj@lemmy.ca
    201·
    9 months ago

    Because projects funded by Jack Dorsey have a track record of going to shit

  • fullsquare@awful.systems
    191·
    9 months ago

    because it’s packed with nazis and cryptobros with their spam. moderation is very limited by design

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    17·
    9 months ago

    I don’t like the twitter format.

    I’m interested in following subjects, not individual people.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      32·
      9 months ago

      You may already know this, but I’ll say it anyway: It’s possible to follow hashtags on Mastodon, and so basically following topics.

      It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn’t do that?

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        6·
        9 months ago

        It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn’t do that?

        Why wouldn’t I?

        Hashtags are not even close to a reliable way to follow a subject. The fact that people can post without them, means a lot of people don’t. Not because they don’t have something interesting to say, but because they are posting it for their followers. The entire culture around how discussion should be conducted is different among users used to the twitter format.

        To post on lemmy, your post must be associated with a relevant community. Hence, posts go out to subscribers interested in the subject, rather than to the followers of the user. As such, posts live or die on the merit of their content. Not who posted it.

  • Crampi@sh.itjust.works
    111·
    9 months ago

    In 2024, in an article reporting on the project’s funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist

    Oh oh