Thread by @atomicthumbs

so what are the odds this causes the Fediverse to collapse

mastodon is a joke, i'm afraid. it's not fit for purpose.

instead of a billionaire's fiefdom run by thousands of people, you get a hobby sysadmin's fiefdom run by a hobby sysadmin and connected to 1 billion other fiefdoms

sorry your friend's account is gone because someone forgot to pay for the linode it lived on

small business selling art prints destroyed because one of the admins of the instance i used broke up with the other one

i used to have a mastodon account on "snouts dot online." I don't know what happened to it but it's sure as fuck gone.

Fortunately I can make another "atomicthumbs" account on any number of other instances, and nobody will be able to find it ever

also anyone else can make an "atomicthumbs" account on any number of other instances and pretend to be me

I ain't leaving Twitter for Mastodon unless I am forced out. Absolute misery in that direction

Publicly cancelled because one of the admins read your DMs with a friend and found your kinks unacceptable

yes, the admins on a Mastodon instance can read your DMs. And the admins on another instance can also read your inter-instance DMs. Hope you trust every single one of them!

inter-instance DMs as in "if your friend is on another instance, the admin of that instance can read your conversation"

oh yeah I forgot that instances can just straight-up defederate from others at a whim

https://twitter.com/manedpup/status/1518670508413366274

this isn't even getting into the weird and alienating culture aspects. cw: video game screenshot

last time I looked, the only way to ensure full control of reliability on Mastodon is to make a single-user instance for yourself with Pleroma

last time I looked, a ton of big instances refused to federate with Pleroma instances, because nazis used Pleroma to harass people

seeing a lot of people quote-tweet this with "twitter admins can also read your DMs"

twitter admins can be fired if they read your DMs, and twitter has hundreds of millions of users. compare to an unvetted hobby sysadmin with 100 users on an instance

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1518669806777421824

there's a furry MUCK called Tapestries; I've heard of people talking shit about the admins in private rooms there and being yelled at. because the admins can see everything, all the time

I don't want to run my online social life on something that duplicates furry MUCK problems

also I don't like the user interface but that's just me

i am an anarchist and even i think it is important to recognize that some things just aren't really suited to run in a decentralized fashion

it is just straight-up confusing for any regular person to understand the federation concept. it took me ages to figure out how things worked. a normal person who might make good posts on twitter is likely to give up at "step 1: choose an instance from these 30,000"

we need one social cooperative. maybe this time write the platform in elixir or something

you don't need ads. just make it $10 to join, $5 to change your icon, and $30 to change someone else's

deleted the post about the incident that ultimately started a cascade of events leading to snouts dot online's collapse; there was a tremendous amount of interpersonal conflict that must be elided to fit in tweets

you don't see parts of twitter shutting down due to interdepartmental warfare at 1355 Market St #900

i'm trying to look at replies to this thread and my mentions tab has nothing from less than 9 hours ago. twitter ain't perfect and it's run on the backs of overworked queer SREs

addendum: someone tried to shill "lens protocol" in the replies to this thread and damn this actually looks WORSE than mastodon. well done, incredible feat

i shouldn't be too harsh, it would be lovely if every single person with ".eth" in their display name vanished into web3 forever, never to be heard from again