Jonathan Joelson

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[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@whstancil Mastodon seems like the nearest thing to Twitter. Why did you dislike it so much?

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@edzitron It’s one of those things that is so nonsensical that it defies analogy

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@irace @marcoarment Or to be more fair: the integration is probably helpful for legacy codebases using an Objective-C oriented model layer to start using some SwiftUI. But Marco is correct that it is not remotely “Swifty” and you probably should avoid it in new codebases.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@irace @marcoarment They made it easy to integrate CoreData with SwiftUI in a quick and dirty way; good for demos, but no serious software project should make use of that integration imo.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@ryanlcooper @joshtpm Pretty good lay description of technical debt 👍

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@BillyVonElds @whstancil That Dems didn’t get wiped out in the midterms is not proof that their strategy was optimal.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@BillyVonElds @whstancil “The Dems could use a better strategy” and “the political media narratives are way too negative on Dems given the polling” are not contradictory.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@BillyVonElds @whstancil This is what he said about the polls heading into election day: https://t.co/LDi21NbwiM

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

The actual evidence we have about tomorrow is mixed-to-fine for Dems. That includes both polls (which haven't been very useful lately), and early vote data (which is arguably never useful). Anyone claiming to be sure that tomorrow will break against Dems is using vibes only.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@AdamMantine @whstancil Will has been highly critical of Dem strategy, but this was his “prediction” such that it is right before election day: https://t.co/LDi21Nc48k

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

The actual evidence we have about tomorrow is mixed-to-fine for Dems. That includes both polls (which haven't been very useful lately), and early vote data (which is arguably never useful). Anyone claiming to be sure that tomorrow will break against Dems is using vibes only.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@benthompson @sharptechpod Even stipulating that Twitter’s poor UX may not have _helped_, it did not _prevent_ Twitter from becoming a viable social network. Sometimes there is just a weird path dependency and then network effects kick in.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@sharptechpod @benthompson In some sense, that feeling that Twitter was this exclusive club that was for the elite rather than the mainstream was exactly its appeal.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@sharptechpod @benthompson One thing this kind of misses is that Twitter was completely inscrutable and had a super steep learning curve all throughout the period where it became _the_ place to be.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@whstancil Mastodon is like email in that there is no single email server; you can sign up for an account with gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and your employer probably runs an email server too.

So choosing a Mastodon server is like choosing between creating a gmail or yahoo email account.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@RebeccaSlatkin idk if it’s “sneaky” so much as “fraudulent”

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@davekarpf Followed! @[email protected]

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@BrooklynSpoke Following! @[email protected]

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@edroso @tomscocca Y’all probably climbed the Twitter learning curve so long ago that you forgot it had a learning curve.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@edroso @tomscocca People over complicate this shit, just go to https://t.co/69IUaA5xay and sign up.

If you tried to explain all of the nuances of Twitter to someone who doesn’t know anything about it they’d also think it sounds weird and awful.

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@tomscocca It’s not super easy to use, but you may have forgotten that Twitter had a learning curve too; especially back in the day!

[Jonathan Joelson @jtjoelson]

@irace It’s weird, because it both misunderstands the practical purpose of verification and is oblivious to the fact that whatever “status” it conveys would vanish if any nazi with $8 in their pocket could get it.