busybee

So, a little while ago I did an extremely unscientific poll on login methods via Authl on this website. The results of that (measured by folks who accessed my site for any authenticated reason, not just folks visiting the login method poll):

• 8 signed in via Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.)
• 4 signed in via IndieAuth
• 7 signed in via email

Not a single one signed in via Twitter.

Because of Twitter’s impending buyout a lot of people are talking about alternatives to Twitter, including Mastodon. I could write a bunch of long rambles about this, but I already have:

• Slowcial networking
• Distributed toxicity and the IndieWeb
• Indieweb vs. Fediverse

Basically, my problem with Twitter isn’t that it’s centralized, but that it’s Twitter.