{"id":8703,"date":"2023-01-22T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T06:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-01-22T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T06:37:27","slug":"back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new social network and its interconnected \u2018fediverse\u2019 is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk<\/p>\n

When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so you could watch little dots popping up all over the globe. (I even made a short video recording of my screen and set it to music, but didn\u2019t put it online because I didn\u2019t own the music rights, and now I can\u2019t find it. Sigh \u2013 such is digital life.)<\/p>\n

What I loved about Twitter at the beginning was that it enabled you to plug into the thought streams of people you liked or admired. Like all good things, though, that came to an end when the platform embarked on the algorithmic curation of users\u2019 feeds<\/a> to increase \u201cengagement\u201d (and, it hoped, profits). And from then on, it became increasingly tiresome, though I kept my account. But when it became clear that Elon Musk was going to buy the platform<\/a> \u2013 and wreak havoc<\/a> \u2013 I decided to explore possible alternatives.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nThe new social network and its interconnected \u2018fediverse\u2019 is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk
\nWhen Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so you could watch little dots popping up all over the globe. (I even made a short video recording of my screen and set it to music, but didn\u2019t put it online because I didn\u2019t own the music rights, and now I can\u2019t find it. Sigh \u2013 such is digital life.)
\nWhat I loved about Twitter at the beginning was that it enabled you to plug into the thought streams of people you liked or admired. Like all good things, though, that came to an end when the platform embarked on the algorithmic curation of users\u2019 feeds to increase \u201cengagement\u201d (and, it hoped, profits). And from then on, it became increasingly tiresome, though I kept my account. But when it became clear that Elon Musk was going to buy the platform \u2013 and wreak havoc \u2013 I decided to explore possible alternatives. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new social network and its interconnected \u2018fediverse\u2019 is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so …<\/p>\n

Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}