The interesting part in this article starts at the paragraph starting with : The biggest name in the Twitter replacement game is Mastodon
But if Twitter users move over, will they like having to figure out the rules and politics of each instance they want to join or knowing that the administrators of those servers can read their DMs?
I wish people would stop bringing up how admins can read DMs on Masto. Yes, they technically can but 99.9% of them could not give a shit about what you’re DMing to other users. Until Elon implements encrypted DMs, Twitter staff can read your DMs too.
The concept of learning a new set of rules (which are mostly just “don’t be an asshole” and “don’t be a Nazi”) is a non-issue when your moderation team is actually made up of easily contactable people. If you don’t like the rules, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere.
The big difference is that when client apps, be it for Twitter or just a regular old e-mail client reads your content - it’s working as intended.
If twitter staff does, they’re not.
Assuming they’re breaking user agreements etc.
@coldhotman I tend to agree with your statement concerning client apps because your data stays on your local device (unless that app is spyware). However, the concerning apps are 3d party cloud-services which use the twitter api. These include cloud automation. social media monitoring, and social media backup services. These services pull ‘private’ data directly off the twitter servers.
Bluesky surely has to be the front runner for the better twitter even if it is only an underlying protocol. I don’t think Mastodon will ever be the front runner in that the devs don’t seem to want to imitate the hooks that allowed twitter to become so big in the first place (not a bad thing)
