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simply1

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Agreed. Mods, you can shut this down. DM me if you're actually interested in following CF people on Mastodon.
I’m waiting on a smaller server to approve, how large is the one you’re on?
 

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I’m waiting on a smaller server to approve, how large is the one you’re on?
mindly.social is one of the bigger ones. I haven't seen one with a specific topic that interests me yet. Seems like most of the tech focused servers are either very specific or in a different language. Hoping someone will start a Cyclone server... or maybe not the way this thread is going.
 
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Had no idea what Mastodon was before today. I learned something. Then the rest of the thread happened.
 
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mindly.social is one of the bigger ones. I haven't seen one with a specific topic that interests me yet. Seems like most of the tech focused servers are either very specific or in a different language. Hoping someone will start a Cyclone server... or maybe not the way this thread is going.
I went with a local one first, Cyclone one with fanatics staff would be amazing though.
 

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Tesla stock is down 54% this year. Ford is 36%, GM 35%, Toyota 21%. What competitors is it beating?

For the record I don't own Twitter stock and I haven't been on the platform for years. CF is the only social I'm on. You couldn't pay me to get back on it so my opinions on twitter have nothing to do with Musk. I'd also love a Tesla vehicle so while I think Musk is an absolute tool I would have no problem using a product or service that he owns.
Those stocks you mention are basically so low because they cant go much lower, so its hard to drop that low. Tesla after a massive split still trades at multiple times the value of any of those, beyond maybe Toyota. But Then you didnt mention other tech stocks in the market like Meta etc, and what they are at.
 

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Some truth here to be sure but it ignores some objectively unprecedented weird/inappropriate stuff from Twitter.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t frequently post fake news stories from known fake tabloids to 130 million followers…not that I’m a fan of his. It took Musk 38 hours as CEO to do that.

Again not a fan of Zuckerberg but he also doesn’t post to 130 million on his own platform to vote for a specific party on Election Day. Heads would certainly and understandably have exploded if he did behave like that.
Ok now you are going to have to share these tweets you speak of, because I have never seen any of them from him tweeting fake news from tabloids, or specifically saying to vote for a party. But I might be wrong, I dont follow him or anything on twitter much, and you are right, but everything on social media is weird and always has been.
 

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Are these good business decisions:
- tweeting fake news from a known fake news tabloid to 130 million followers in your second day as CEO of twitter itself
- the source is so fake that they actually reported the person he was replying to died six years ago
- telling everyone as CEO of twitter to vote for one specific party on Election Day
- firing thousands of people and immediately trying to hire hundreds of them back
- meet with Putin, then run a poll asking how many people think NATO should give Putin exactly what he wants even though he’s losing
-when 73% of his own followers disagree with him in his own poll he says they are all bots…I disagreed with him, I’m not a bot
- a week later starts making corporate decisions with same polls, somehow no bots now!

I mean I could go on. There are dozens of them almost daily that are horrific business decisions. If he succeeds it’ll be in spite of a ridiculous amount of early poor decisions.
Do you really think any of these have much to do with the actual businesses he runs. Or how Twitter is run. Beyond the employees. He is doing things for clicks and attention. Which makes Twitter money, and popular. If you havent figured that out yet, he has already won. He knows that being controversial generates free marketing, and enormous amounts of clicks. Their have been several business people that have said the whole firing thing was a)not only needed, but also to get rid of the poor employees and get the ones that actually wanted to work to come back/stay. Its all part of a strategy. But I know some people have so much angst that they cant see that some of these people use the controversy for publicity.
 

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Do you really think any of these have much to do with the actual businesses he runs. Or how Twitter is run. Beyond the employees. He is doing things for clicks and attention. Which makes Twitter money, and popular. If you havent figured that out yet, he has already won. He knows that being controversial generates free marketing, and enormous amounts of clicks. Their have been several business people that have said the whole firing thing was a)not only needed, but also to get rid of the poor employees and get the ones that actually wanted to work to come back/stay. Its all part of a strategy. But I know some people have so much angst that they cant see that some of these people use the controversy for publicity.
Start your own thread for your agenda.
 

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Those stocks you mention are basically so low because they cant go much lower, so its hard to drop that low. Tesla after a massive split still trades at multiple times the value of any of those, beyond maybe Toyota. But Then you didnt mention other tech stocks in the market like Meta etc, and what they are at.

EV demand has absolutely nothing to do with social media demand.

If I was forced to buy another gas only car it would cost me a lot of cash...my gas was around $7 for a while, still $5.50, and my electric equivalent is $1.30 (domestic sources and actually 75% renewable if you care about those things but fuel cost and air pollution are just as important drivers).

On the flip side I quit Facebook about 8 years ago and didn't miss it at all. I quit Twitter when the new CEO instantly started promoting obvious fake news to 130 million followers on his second day. I stay on IG and LinkedIn because they are effectively work portfolios. Twitter was the only platform I actuallly enjoyed but I stopped enjoying it because of the turn to celebrate disinformation/nazism/etc, it was no big deal at all to quit. Poof. Bye bye. Who cares.

The EV choice doesn't have to be Tesla, and in my case it was not, but the overall factors driving the rise in the leader in EVs (Tesla) are nothing like driving factors for social media demand and use. About 3-4 years ago I saw Teslas go from being rare to probably the #1 most common car in my neighborhood. I'm going out to grab lunch soon and I'll see 50-100 Teslas just in my few blocks. If all the other auto makers had been as well positioned as they are right now 3-4 years ago, and the Tesla owner was celebrating Putin/Nazis and telling everyone to vote Republican on Election Day after the Jan6 insurrection...those would be electric BMW/VW/Mercedes/Hyaundai instead of Teslas. I see it every day with these models growing rapidly and more PHEV options where Tesla isn't even competing that will be critical for 5-10 years.

There's plenty of reason for measured skepticism of Tesla and if you can't see it you're about 1% as smart as you think you are. Tesla isn't highly valued because everybody in Iowa and Mississippi is buying them, a quick and crazy undisciplined marketing move turning them into MAGA Mobiles is a legitimate risk.
 
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hm, i did not see anything that location-specific when I signed up. Just like North America. Maybe need to check out the servers again.
I did a keyword search until I found a server that seemed to be what I wanted. Not super efficient, but landed on a small local area one. Still learning about the layers of presenting content that Mastodon uses.
 

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Start your own thread for your agenda.
Im not the one on here begging for followers on a dead social, for butt hurt Musk haters.

Then dumbing every post that explains that it is just another alternate to Twitter like them all that are just alternates for the next group that are butt hurt by todays controversy.

I simply am replying to people that believe I am wrong, that think Mastodon is more than that, and that they arent Butt hurt that Musk bought twitter. Which obviously it struck a nerve with those that are butt hurt he bought twitter, what I can say is if you are that upset and dumbing my posts describing such, than look in the mirror.

But I am sure those same butt hurt people will dumb this too.

Cope
 

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Ok now you are going to have to share these tweets you speak of, because I have never seen any of them from him tweeting fake news from tabloids, or specifically saying to vote for a party. But I might be wrong, I dont follow him or anything on twitter much, and you are right, but everything on social media is weird and always has been.

On his second day he tweeted a fake news story to Hillary Clinton from the known fake news site "Santa Monica Observer". The source is so horrifically bad they have previously reported that Hillary Clinton is dead. He used a source to argue with Hillary Clinton that thinks she's not even alive...this is his SECOND DAY. Like I said, Zuckerberg is a creepy obnoxious weirdo but he runs his companies at an insanely more responsible level than that from a public messaging standpoint.

He talked with Putin, shortly after he posted a poll asking if NATO should give Putin everything he wants in order to have a peace agreement. 73% of his own followers disagreed with him (because he wanted NATO to give everything to Putin). He claimed everyone voting against him was a "bot". Then a couple weeks later he runs other polls to make decisions and when his own followers narrowly agree with him...not bots and great way to make decisions!

The fact that you don't know any of this shows you should probably STFU on the topic. It's very common knowledge and I'm not going to link it for you, you could google it in two seconds.

The one where he told everyone to vote Republican on election day, again, how can you not know that yet post on this subject? Imagine the heads exploding if Zuckerberg told all of Facebook or IG to vote Democrat or Republican.
 

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Im not the one on here begging for followers on a dead social, for butt hurt Musk haters.

Then dumbing every post that explains that it is just another alternate to Twitter like them all that are just alternates for the next group that are butt hurt by todays controversy.

I simply am replying to people that believe I am wrong, that think Mastodon is more than that, and that they arent Butt hurt that Musk bought twitter. Which obviously it struck a nerve with those that are butt hurt he bought twitter, what I can say is if you are that upset and dumbing my posts describing such, than look in the mirror.

But I am sure those same butt hurt people will dumb this too.

Cope

You're simping for a billionaire and have admitted you don't even have the slightest clue what he has been doing for the past month. Like not even basic knowledge about things he's done that have been front page news, stuff any informed person that posts on the topic should know.

Whatever "butt hurt" is, it must be a few million levels above where you're at.

Nobody in the thread thinks Mastadon is the new Apple or Tesla or Amazon. I doubt anybody even thinks it will be a big phenomenon at all. That's some weird thing in your head and the reason everybody wants you to go away.
 
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