Tweetbot Maker Tapbots Working on 'Ivory' Mastodon App

[1557750]

Meh, this is just anti musk garbage. I expect more from Macrumors. Personally I don't want Apple censoring content. I'll hate Twitter once Musk gives me a reason. I see people flipping out about the 8 dollars check mark but they didn't even have one before. I'm curious how they will handle Trump, will they include community notes? Hopefully. All these people running around that the sky is falling should just chill and watch the sky fall. Either it falls in a glorious fire ball or nothing happens.

Very well said.

 

[GMShadow]

Mastodon is just Twitter with Reddit mods.

In other words, a new previously undiscovered level of hell.

 

[Pistol Peto]

Leftists who are mad that Twitter is no longer a vehicle for leftist censorship are so desperate to make Mastodon happen.

I'm left leaning, so don't bother trying to call me right wing for being able to see through the bs hate machine directed at Elon Musk just because he stopped the censorship.

Yeah, sure you are.

 

[Agent OrangeZ]

Leftists who are mad that Twitter is no longer a vehicle for leftist censorship are so desperate to make Mastodon happen.

I'm left leaning, so don't bother trying to call me right wing for being able to see through the bs hate machine directed at Elon Musk just because he stopped the censorship.

It just gives me joy to see the Joe Biden Administration White House account get fact checked now. Both sides lie... so both sides should be fact checked.

 

[SenorWhyMe]

Meh, this is just anti musk garbage. I expect more from Macrumors. Personally I don't want Apple censoring content. I'll hate Twitter once Musk gives me a reason. I see people flipping out about the 8 dollars check mark but they didn't even have one before. I'm curious how they will handle Trump, will they include community notes? Hopefully. All these people running around that the sky is falling should just chill and watch the sky fall. Either it falls in a glorious fire ball or nothing happens.

I have been noticing Macrumors and reddit bandwagoning all the time and it's getting annoying how biased some of the political content added into macrumors

 

[1557750]

Mastodon is just Twitter with Reddit mods.

In other words, a new previously undiscovered level of hell.

That doesn’t sound fun at all.

 

[Sciomar]

Meh, this is just anti musk garbage. I expect more from Macrumors. Personally I don't want Apple censoring content. I'll hate Twitter once Musk gives me a reason. I see people flipping out about the 8 dollars check mark but they didn't even have one before. I'm curious how they will handle Trump, will they include community notes? Hopefully. All these people running around that the sky is falling should just chill and watch the sky fall. Either it falls in a glorious fire ball or nothing happens.

Lower your bar a bit for this place. Elon even tested to see if Community Notes would correct his tweet, and it did. He's just the current thing they were told to hate, they probably couldn't even tell you why they hate him (aside from some choice names or adjectives).

 

[Kabeyun]

I'll hate Twitter once Musk gives me a reason.

In my opinion this thinking overlooks a far bigger reason to hate Twitter than Elon Musk: anonymity.

 

[teh_hunterer]

Yeah, sure you are.

Sure am. Never voted right/conservative in my life.

 

[5H3PH3RD]

Leftists who are mad that Twitter is no longer a vehicle for leftist censorship are so desperate to make Mastodon happen.

I'm left leaning, so don't bother trying to call me right wing for being able to see through the bs hate machine directed at Elon Musk just because he stopped the censorship.

Ah yes. That ‘leftist’ censorship, better known as violating ToS.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Apple requires all social media platforms in the App store to be moderated. Elon fired all of Twitters moderators but one single person in charge of searching the entire service for CP, and dismantled the protections from medical and scientific misinformation. His actions serving one extreme political faction put him in direct conflict with Apples terms. He can whine and cry about it forever, but he’s free to finish bankrupting himself by building his own crappy phone tailored to dispersing far-right ideological scientific misinformation if he wants. No one is stopping him.

 

[teh_hunterer]

Ah yes. That ‘leftist’ censorship, better known as violating ToS.

Since when is a ToS gospel? You can change any rule, ToS, or law to reflect anything you want. Just because it is in the ToS doesn't mean it's good.

And Twitter was run by people (Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde) who were openly discussing and defending censoring Twitter based on left wing politics. If Twitter was run by people who were openly discussing and defending censoring Twitter based on right wing politics I'd be pretty mad about that as well.

 

[Pistol Peto]

So anyways.... Tapbots is hard at work and I can't wait for them to get this done! It should really improve my experience - similar to how Tweetbot did with Twitter.

Go Paul and Mark!!!

 

[movielad]

If Twitter continues to operate in a blasé faire fashion under Musk, the EU are going to have some serious words with him. Twitter is an international company and needs to follow local laws. Failure to do so will more than likely hit Twitter with numerous fines (or perhaps worse). That Twitter under Musk has more than likely violated various labour laws in the US and elsewhere alone will get the relevant authorities attention.

Stick with Twitter or go with Mastodon. Or do both. At least there is a choice.

 

[Pistol Peto]

If Twitter continues to operate in a blasé faire fashion under Musk, the EU are going to have some serious words with him. Twitter is an international company and needs to follow local laws. Failure to do so will more than likely hit Twitter with numerous fines (or perhaps worse). That Twitter under Musk has more than likely violated various labour laws in the US and elsewhere alone will get the relevant authorities attention.

Stick with Twitter or go with Mastodon. Or do both. At least there is a choice.

Laissez faire? Otherwise, agreed.

 

[Analog Kid]

Meh, this is just anti musk garbage. I expect more from Macrumors. Personally I don't want Apple censoring content.

Am I reading this right? "I don't like 'censorship' and Macrumors should stop reporting on Twitter's competition"?

This fits well with the "people should stop complaining about Musk and support free speech" and "Only leftist commies complain about other people's politics" arguments I've been seeing from people for days.

Where are all the free market "competition is always good" people on this one?

 

[avanpelt]

Mastodon recently removed the term 'Toot' from its platform. That's unfortunate because TootBot would've been a far more interesting name than Ivory.

 

[LogicalApex]

Meh, this is just anti musk garbage. I expect more from Macrumors. Personally I don't want Apple censoring content. I'll hate Twitter once Musk gives me a reason. I see people flipping out about the 8 dollars check mark but they didn't even have one before. I'm curious how they will handle Trump, will they include community notes? Hopefully. All these people running around that the sky is falling should just chill and watch the sky fall. Either it falls in a glorious fire ball or nothing happens.

Isn’t that the same for everyone though… That they’ll hate Twitter once Musk gives them a reason to? Except, as expected, that line is different for them than you. You shouldn’t be shocked here…

You’re free to keep using it and supporting Musk if you want. No one will stop you.

 

[anshuvorty]

Mastodon recently removed the term 'Toot' from its platform. That's unfortunate because TootBot would've been a far more interesting name than Ivory.

Ivory makes sense, at least to me, because Mastodon used to be a species related to the Woolly Mammoth and the Elephant. Elephants have tusks made of ivory, hence why Tweetboot decided to name its Mastodon client Ivory.

 

[VaderRulez]

So is there any way to join this beta?

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Let's stop trying to make Mastodon a thing. As much as we all might want it to be, it just won't be.

 

[seanmcbay]

I find Musk repellant but I'm not leaving for something else until Twitter is truly over.

 

[Bustycat]

I’ve been using Mastodon for years and I hope those radical groups who corrupted Tumblr and then Twitter don’t come.

 

[Muzzakus]

I’ve been using Mastodon for years and I hope those radical groups who corrupted Tumblr and then Twitter don’t come.

They’ll come, but eventually they’ll just return to Twitter for greater validation to their existence

 

[ratspg]

I don't get why so many people are fleeing Twitter just because it changed ownership. It isn't like the site fell apart and stopped functioning...

The internet has so many bubbles and people like to be part of the 'we hate Elon, leaving Twitter' bubble. All is well! Twitter is fine, lol. The less Twitter shows up in media, the more people that 'left' will return from Mastodon haha.