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[–] [email protected] 218 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk's PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn't need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How does mastodon work compared to twitter? I keep hearing about it but I'm still trying to figure out lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's very similar to Twitter, I'd say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @[email protected] rather than just @username

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mastodon "block" is one-way, Twitter is two-way (it blocks the other person seeing your posts if they're logged in).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but every time these stories blow up, Mastodon, Threads, and BlueSky gets another user base boost. I’m ok with that. These stories keep making the alternative communities more and more viable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, he seems unwell and the attention is continuing the negative spiral. Unfortunately, I don't think we can control what people are interested in. This is a total spectacle and media circus