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@sspadt I think changes to monetization are not understood by anyone (including Musk), and I think there will be some fallout as changes take place. Don't see it fading though - Twitter is established as an internet mainstay, and you would REALLY have to be trying to get everyone to jump ship.

@vwbusguy Ah. I found it strange there was only an update about .social, and not one about .online where many new users are likely registering. And apparently mastodon.social is open for signups again? Overall confusing. Thanks for the response.

@gpowerf played a decent amount - not my speed, but holy hell, wish it became a platform in its own right. it might have been doomed from the start - not the right time, but the service itself was executed pretty well by Google and I wish it caught on and survived.

@fac23 You wouldn't be the first!

@vwbusguy Unrelated, but has your experience with #mastodononline been good? I created an account there for that large community feel but created another here since I couldn't stand the sluggishness/lack of local&federated. (Which I am assuming is temporary due to increased load)

@mainzebra I think the majority of toots by most people are okay to be searchable - a per toot switch to turn off search would be sufficient. Regardless, although Twitter's search did lead to harassment people would be able to circumvent it if they wanted to prevent people coming from search (e.g. "tr*mp"). Would just be nice to provide some more agency in finding discussions on topics.

@mainzebra Yeah. Really stinks and is probably the biggest detractor from discoverability, esp. without an algorithm to recommend content. If I want to see X I have to hope the people who talk about X have put "#X!!" in their posts, or else nothing. I get that harassment sucks but it's pretty scorched earth and I don't know if the trade-off is worth it.

@benhall They have all tried, but have kind of been dissuaded from it one way or another. Would certainly be more reliable and they could have their own moderation but I think the pain point is dealing with interactions between other instances where they could not

@nomeata I believe that's how it works - but I did also (temporarily?) migrate from mastodon.online as there were issues with Local/Federated. So it seems that the instance can also have an impact on server load. I suppose this favors mid-sized instances

@benhall I don't see that happening, at least not while these Big Tech servers federate with ANY other servers. MS/Google/any other doesn't want to be held responsible for any platform they can't control. Although it would certainly drive up adoption ... but at that point, they'd likely make their own social platform, which they could have done years ago so they likely aren't interested, etc.

@SebastienK Given a couple volunteers and a generous amount of time, if there isn't one, we can create one.

my dorm has peanut m&ms but not regular m&ms in the vending machine. life is tough and this shit sucks

@ridetheory That's how I've been feeling. It seems a little excessive when it seems that the site only shows you content if you're interested in it anyway.. past NSFW I feel like it should just be up to whether the poster feels like giving the "common courtesy."

@hgreer you're doing the lord's work

@allinone0@fosstodon.org true asf