Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@qoto.org

@BlackAzizAnansi The Fediverse has a product marketing problem: we need to stop saying: fediverse, ActivityPub, federation, instance, server, etc.
These words mean nothing to non-nerds, which makes them immediately feel like outsiders, and they don’t give it a second look and just turn to Threads or whatever is easier.
How we say: Mastodon. That’s it. I know it does not take into account the fact that new people will be confused by the structure, but throwing jargon at them is worse.

Ken Paxton suppressed 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas in 2020.

Donald Trump only “won” by 631,221 votes.

Stop saying Texas might turn blue “someday” — it might already be blue.

The former president, who incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol two years ago because he was upset with the election results, is now encouraging his supporters to violently protest a New York prosecutor, because he's upset about an investigation into hush money payments.

In both cases, as Trump encouraged violence, top Republicans in Congress have supported Trump and validated Trump's complaints.

Peter Thiel, 2009: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Presumably he was referring to the freedom of oligarchs like himself to be unconstrained by taxes and regulations.

In this narrow sense, he’s correct: Oligarchy is incompatible with democracy.

It’s wild that during Reagan’s presidency everyone watched the first generation of families that required two incomes to survive and we had to come up with terms for us kids left alone at home but Reagan isn’t seen as the guy that drove the death of the middle class in America to enrich the wealthy when he clearly accomplished that.

4. The @washingtonpost@twitter.com does not credit http://popular.info for breaking the story eight days earlier, but that's the way it goes as an independent outlet.

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3. The "Community Note" was false and my reporting was accurate. That's been true since January 23.

But here we are a week later, and the @washingtonpost@twitter.com has picked up our story.

And they've confirmed all of Popular Information's reporting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/florida-hide-books-stop-woke-manatee-county-duval-county-desantis/

Telling my Twitter followers I'm heading over to Mastodon for a pack of cigarettes and I'll be right back and then deleting my account

@BlackAzizAnansi I think about this every time I’m on mass transit and the automated announcement refers to “customers” — it’s insidious

massive layoffs just after forcing everyone to move back to where their assigned office is located is…a choice. telling people they are fired by email is…a choice. telling people they are fired via email while they’re in a whole other state for a client meeting is…a choice.

The Press are noticing that former Twitter developers are migrating to Mastodon.

What should raise eyebrows is: Ivory might be "better than Tweetbot ever could be".

This isn't mere hype.

Tweetbot was rolled out in 2011, when Twitter clients were already constrained by API limitations.

However, with Mastodon, Tapbots isn't constrained whatsoever by a proprietary API.

With open protocols, the sky is the limit in how they can innovate!

Twitter ain't limiting them!

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tweetbots-twitter-client-shutdown-195533095.html

Oh you mean the people who were ready to trash American democracy and install Trump for another term based on Rudy Guiliani ramblings and Mike Lindell’s fever dream don’t have an organized and rational approach to governing?

Interesting.

It's becoming pretty clear after *two weeks* on Mastodon that the Other Place deliberately promoted conflict but sold it as conversation.

I still haven't even processed 2020 tbh, ain't no way I'm ready for 2023.

@BlackAzizAnansi I’m tired of “inspirational” stories of us having to overcome systemic failures. Resilience in the face of racist oppression is a scam.

Higher. At least one person froze to death while going to the grocery store to get food, another died in a woman's car after she let him get in for warmth, and she was stuck inside of her car with the body for hours. But I think that it's time that we talk about how Black people are often subject to living in areas where infrastructure is disproportionately fragile, which at it's worse becomes a nuisance when the power goes out and at worst, results in mass death because our government couldn't

I don't know if people have been paying attention to what's been going on in Buffalo, New York but the city was hit with a terrible storm over the weekend, which resulted in a disproportionate amount of people on the majority Black East Side either becoming stranded in the freezing weather or losing power in their homes for days, resulting in families having to stay in their homes without any heat.

There are three confirmed deaths so far, but I suspect that the death toll is much (cont)

Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?