Seth Gossler

A father of felines. A home giver to rodents. A disappointed father.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

Mastodon is actual magic, but the good kind without blood sacrifice. It's everything you actually want out of social media.

Find me there: https://t.co/8NlFpPyZmz

#byetwitter #saviorcomplexsaredumb #Mastodon

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

Get on Twitter for the first time in month or so.

Immediately learn that Andrew Callaghan raped people.

The full Twitter experience.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

Having unfollowed the "influencers", keeping only friends, Twitter's still catering to "impressions" (likes, retweets) I made previously. But it's getting worse as time goes. How is my timeline still filled then? What metric goes into filling it? Certain # of new items per hour?

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

I'm unfollowing by posts as they show up. Did you know theres a lot of ducking posts you dont see? I mean, these people have posting?

Too many layers to this gamified hot mess.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

Gonna start unfollowing people on Twitter, a slow closing of the curtains.

Will be interesting to see what kind of timeline survives this.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@eat_pizza @MDCKid Let's talk about Twitter 🧵 1/30

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@eat_pizza @MDCKid Oh for sure, I recognize those feels 💯. But it all sucks a bit more since it's on Twitter lol.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@eat_pizza @MDCKid I don't like the viral post "lottery" algorithm on Twitter. Thinking every post could go viral, might get noticed.

And in the mean time, you looked at some ads.

Knowing that makes the experience here sour. Obviously the timeline here is better, but it doesnt need to be here.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@eat_pizza @MDCKid Did you know you can follow phpbb forums on mastodon?

What how's that confusing

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@MDCKid Choosing an instance doesnt affect much. I joined a friends so I'd know who to blame when it crashes. No good other reason.

I keep in mind; Twitter could implement the same open protocol as mastodon. It's basically a mastodon instance that refuses to play with others.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

I'll be here: https://t.co/z7b7BlXpfN

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Before I also get banned from Twitter, please follow me at the other site. See my pinned tweet!

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

https://t.co/XmHaNAfQST

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@Tyreil @zachjcaldwell Sounds close to an AI/robot tax.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@TychoBrahe Social media is intentionally designed. Not emergent, but an artificial curated habitat that (hopefully) incidentally gave edge to narcissists.

It's a zoo where tigers are penned with prey, and it's exciting to watch.

We could chose a different zoo.

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@eat_pizza @EricFrohnhoefer 🤞💰🤞

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@krisstraub I'm surprised there isnt a "nerdom entertainment industry" instance yet.

[Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon]

Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!

[Seth Gossler @SethGossler]

@MainManMikhael @adamconover If Musk can keep twitter alive by some rabid fan base, more power to him. Maybe he'll give them twitter-coins to spend each month too for being a sub.