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Felice_rdt t1_j0tbola wrote

Reply to comment by MardiFoufs in [D] Will there be a replacement for Machine Learning Twitter? by MrAcurite

Because it's basically a site where everyone who hates Elon Musk's Twitter has flocked to. I think it's only natural that the conversation there would be about hating Elon Musk's Twitter.

I'm sure the same was (and might still be) true of Gab or Truth or any of the other splinter sites that have gained popularity with a group of angry Twitter expats in the past.

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Ronny_Jotten t1_j0tnech wrote

It's not a "site" though. There are many different Mastodon servers, and you can join the one you like. They do carry message from other servers, but you don't have to look at them, you can just stay on the local server.

Look at the sidebar on the right, and click on "local" instead of "federated" or "explore". It's 90% about ML and AI.

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Felice_rdt t1_j0ubo7b wrote

Yeah yeah. I know. Wrong choice of words. Call it a network if you like, or a federation. Whatever. I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant.

My advice to you, take it or leave it: Don't be the "well, actually" guy. Nobody likes the "well, actually" guy.

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Ronny_Jotten t1_j0vkk1z wrote

Not just nitpicking about "site" vs "federation". Your whole statement wrongly characterizes what Sigmoid is.

If you go to the front page of Reddit, you'll also see a bunch of stuff about Musk and Twitter, plus Amber Heard, other pointless gossip, clickbait, and videos of people falling down. That tells you literally nothing about the ML community here.

The reason the person to whom you're responding saw the comments about Musk on Sigmoid is because they were looking at the wrong page (maybe Sigmoid should make "Local" the landing page), not because it's a group of angry Twitter expats.

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MardiFoufs t1_j0tcbll wrote

Yeah and I get that, honestly it's totally fine that they can have their own platform. But it seems like it won't be very conductive to discussion about machine learning lol. Maybe in a few months, but by then I might as well stick to twitter where discussion is happening now.

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Felice_rdt t1_j0tcrj8 wrote

Yeah I've had a similar problem with retro gamedev stuff. Half of it is on twitter and half on Mastodon. I suspect it'll go full Mastodon in the end.

Honestly I actually like Mastodon better myself so far, doubtful as I was at the outset. I just don't think it'll get mass adoption outside of techies.

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