'Cselle wants to roll back the clock as if all that never happened. “It’s kind of retro,” he says. “Remember what Twitter felt like in 2007 when it was real people sharing things from their life and not airbrushed Tiktoks?”' - @stevenlevy

I like that other people are exploring how to replace Twitter. At the same time isn't Mastodon already taking us back to a simpler time with added benefits of #Fediverse integration?

I feel like any service that doesn't tie into the Fediverse is a regression from the perspective of their users' control over their relationships with their connections, at the very least.

#T2 #TwitterReplacement #Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-startup-t2-wants-to-terminate-twitter/

@atomicpoet @jaredwhite That's what I just said. I know there's more than one federated #TwitterReplacement. There's at least 15. I don't need 15 Twitter replacements. I don't need two Twitter replacements. I need one Twitter replacement. 

I agree that, from a technical perspective, #Pleroma might be a better #Twitter replacement than #Mastodon. The native #markdown support alone wins in my book. (Though the 5000 character default would kill me - it takes me long enough to make 2¹⁰ posts)

But I have a few questions: how do I choose a Pleroma instance? How do I find my Twitter friends on Pleroma? How do I connect my Pleroma account and my Twitter account so my posts automatically tweet as well? Where can I find a list of good accounts to follow on Pleroma? What are the best (regularly updated) Pleroma apps?

Replace "Pleroma" with "Mastodon", and those questions are Googleable. Until the same is true of Pleroma, it's useless to me and the #Twefugees like me.

@jessmahler
It's a fascinating question.

The central problem of any social media platform is content moderation, so a way to enable that should be the focus of any public square.

I tend to think that federation will only work if all mods are willing to admit content moderation is their central job.

If it's going to be a global square, interoperability would have to be very high between instances; or it would need to be centralized.

1/n

#GlobalPublicSquare #TwitterReplacement