Same with shitter before i stopped using it.

On mastodon, i sometimes go to the explore page to see whats trending.

You’re taking a far calmer approach than i could ever take.

Aside from nagging a bit more often for donations, has the site gotten worse in any way as a result?

No.

He’s more of a fan of nostr, given how he is a crypto bro, that tracks.

A lot of people and outlets have said Bluesky is open source, which is actually false. Only the frontend is open source. That being said, they do use the AT Protocol which is still experimental, but seems like less of a mess than Activitypub.

There is a filter list built in.

I hate the amount of lazy journalism that embedded tweets have spawned, I will find articles that say “people are saying” something and the proof is three random tweets with about 6 likes between them.

My twitter account is just a link to my mastodon profile, with a script that posts a link to it every week or so to stop it getting banned for inactivity.

Yeah, I don’t think that banning social platforms is a good idea, unless its hosting illegal content. As bad as ““X”” is, banning it could be a slippery slope.

Although, I don’t think this change.org petition will get far.

I’m not going to get in to a hissy fit because someone uses Microsoft Windows or bought something from Amazon

You’re more mature than some people here.

Obviously not what they have in use anymore, but for a golden few seconds the algorithm was open source: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm