@feditips or as others have pointed out, use it as an importable mute list ^^

@feditips it's frustrating because media articles are saying that Mastodon is a replacement for Twitter rather than its own platform with its own identity.

I'll admit I'm new to this platform but I know it's a completely different vibe.

@feditips Ty for the tip

@feditips Centralized solutions always work better. As evidenced by your "solution" being basically useless to most people while theirs isn't.
And the "fediverse" is already semi-centralized. How are privately maintained verification lists any different?

@feditips #fedified feels as corny as using a unicode check mark.
I guess it's very important for some people. Especially those who are not really a public figure in their own right 😉

@feditips I think you see ghosts.

@feditips Thank you for spreading awareness. I appreciate this!

@feditips Wait, I remember seeing that Twitter provides rel=“me” links in the Website field. Is that true? That’ll make #Fedified quite useless.

I mean, right now you can already do it manually by checking their original Twitter profile for their Mastodon handle xD

@feditips I don't get it..! What's the obsession with being centrally verified - this isn't the birdsite

@feditips I agree with what you are saying in regards to central authorities but it just looks like a mapping of accounts between two systems to me? Am I missing something?

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Is #Fediversified better?🤔

@feditips I think it’s a reasonable short term measure to help avoid chaos as people migrate en masse from Twitter, but yeah I agree long term it should not exist.

@feditips who even is the one that set this up, and why are most people on there relatively unrecognizable journalists? Doesn't a relatively safe "verification" feature for like our own websites exist already?

@feditips lots are now #Nefariosly(?) suggesting #Blocking or #Muting all accounts from the csv which I don’t think is your intention 😳

@feditips Do you know if there is anything being done to remedy the Fedified manipulation?

@feditips you repeat "log in through the website" a lot. I just use the Mastodon app. Does this mean the app has fewer features and I cannot do most of the things you mention there?

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Mastodon for me is like moving to a new town. It's a time for making new friends and reconnecting with old friends I bump into.

@feditips i don’t see what’s the big deal or the big danger. It’s just a list of Twitter handles matched to their mastodon handles. Not bad for discoverability of folks that have migrated from Twitter. I personally found 2 people I used to follow on Twitter.

And I’m not alone in thinking there’s no big deal here https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109335713709760650

Am I missing something?

@feditips wow! That took like two days to begin centralising the decentralised network!! People don't get that the internet was a better place because it was completely decentralised two decades ago until some big names started making it their backyard.

@feditips erifying a user here is a multi-step process. It requires that the user reading content clicks into a users profile, seeing the rel-me link, following THAT, and deciding whether or not that site is adequate for proof-of-identity. It still requires a trust-chain that’s vulnerable to social-engineering and spoofing.

Nothing’s stopping a bad player from making an “Eli Lilly” spoof site that LOOKS pretty real, verifying themselves, and doing a lot of damage.