“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.

  • @[email protected]
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    1611 months ago

    The problem is that we’re scattering. A handful to Bluesky. A smattering to Mastodon. A pittance to Lemmy. Building a unified community on a single platform again will take years.

    • mo_ztt ✅
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      611 months ago

      Most clued-in people have moved to Mastodon as the Twitter replacement; it just hasn’t been fully noticed by the mainstream as the new platform. But a lot of the journalists etc are there. Unifying the Lemmy platform with the Mastodon platform to make them interoperable for real seems like it’d be a really good thing.

      • Maestro
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        211 months ago

        So, kbin? It can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time. If you boost a lemmy post on kbin, you essentially retweet (retoot?) it to mastodon under the hashtags associated with the community.

        • mo_ztt ✅
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          211 months ago

          I literally just installed an mbin instance for more or less exactly this purpose 😃

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong it’s great the number of accounts that have moved there, but we’re not even close to where we need to be to make one platform the go-to place like Twitter was.

    • Frog-Brawler
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      211 months ago

      It’s about a unified message and unified ideology; it’s not about having everyone on one website.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        It’s about being able to effectively spread that unified message, which having disjointed platforms impedes.

    • Kid_Thunder
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      11 months ago

      That’s really the beauty of decentralized federated platforms though. People can be scattered to multiple platforms that do their thing but can interoperate with other platforms still. Granted, we’re still in sort of the infancy and ugly part of development and growth but so long as momentum doesn’t die out, it could be the new norm sometime in this decade.

      However, I fear, much like the world-wide web, something who’s potential for humanity is so great can be ruined by business strategists and marketeers after all the hard work is done by people that genuinely care and sacrificed so much effort for the benefit of everyone else.

      • stopthatgirl7OP
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        811 months ago

        Yes. Because people go where other people are. Until people start coalescing on a specific site, Twitter is still going to be relevant.