Category: Social Networks
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Write-only Twitter
A couple of weeks ago, Aral asked me if I could write a user stylesheet for web browsers to make Twitter nothing but a compose box.
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What is Mastodon and why should I use it?
This post is a follow-up to What’s wrong with Twitter?. You can read this post en français on the Framasoft blog. Mastodon started out as a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but has evolved with more features that show an ethical, progressive and inclusive focus. Instead of tweets, your posts on Mastodon are called toots.
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What’s wrong with Twitter?
You can read this post en français on the Framasoft blog. A couple of weeks ago I posted a quick note mentioning I now have my own Mastodon instance. But first things first: why? My aim is to use Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. While Mastodon is not equivalent to Twitter, many of its features are similar. And I’m looking for an alternative to Twitter because Twitter is not good for me.
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