Fedi exclusively. I’ll never trust a corporate/venture capital funded platform again. A profit motive immediately compromises their users even if they are well intended in the beginning.
Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use it might help if something like the "top-links" in the "catch-up" (Beta) window of #phanpy (phanpy.social/ ) is the home page by default for all users. These top-links are sorted by the number of times boosted by the ones *you follow*. This could be useful for #science, to highlight most important developments (e.g. publications) in your network. Now you easily miss them, causing some colleagues to leave.
@geertaarts > Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use
Using Mastodon is only one way to participate in the fediverse. It wasn't even the first. There have always been a range of apps you can use, many of which have features Mastodon lacks;
@michaelcoyote I think keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits, might not be an awful idea. it might also be a way to educate people about the fediverse. #Mastodon #BlueSky
@Bam > I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in
AFAIK it was. Then the Mastodon Homeowners Association dogpiled @snarfed.org until he made it opt-in. What I'd like to see him do is make the opt-in itself opt-in. So it's up to server admins to decide whether they want BS interop with their server to be opt-in or opt-out.
I suspect our server's community would prefer opt-out.
Kev
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Mastodon will be the little rodents with the little whiskers, hiding in the debris...
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From what I've read on Mastodon, Bluesky is the new Nazi bar.
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> Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use
Using Mastodon is only one way to participate in the fediverse. It wasn't even the first. There have always been a range of apps you can use, many of which have features Mastodon lacks;
fediverse.party/en/miscellaneo…
Existing professional tools can be modified to communicate over ActivityPub too, see;
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
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in reply to @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS • • •> keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits
*When* the enshittification of BS hits;
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
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I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in. So many Bluesky non-techies don’t understand how it works or why they should do it.
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Strypey
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@Bam
> I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in
AFAIK it was. Then the Mastodon Homeowners Association dogpiled @snarfed.org until he made it opt-in. What I'd like to see him do is make the opt-in itself opt-in. So it's up to server admins to decide whether they want BS interop with their server to be opt-in or opt-out.
I suspect our server's community would prefer opt-out.
@gimulnautti @JesseSkinner
Strypey
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Having said that, there's some benefits to people effectively having to choose either;
* actually decentralised social networks like the fediverse (or Nostr)
OR
* pseudo-decentralised social platforms like BS (or Meta's Chains)
It spares us having to deal with "influencer" types who think volume of noise is more important than quality of signal.