Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM

In 450 characters what is the difference between twitter and mastodon?

Twitter and Mastodon are both social media platforms, but Twitter is centralized and Mastodon is decentralized. Twitter has a simple user interface and focuses on short-form content, while Mastodon has a more complex and customizable interface and focuses on longer-form content and community-building. These differences impact the user experience and functionality of the two platforms.

2022-12-04, 15:23 1 boosts 4 favorites

@mgifford my impression with so far is that it is good at summarising a mainstream narrative, but really does not challenge anything.

I see texts that would make good essays for high school assignments, but it's a bit like modern-day TED talks: nothing like the (definitely more elitist) earlier versions.

A lot of talk about language models. I'd love to read more about reasoning and belief models 🙂 And concretely: to be better at differentiating twitter and mastodon!

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