Clif @Clif@qoto.org

@griffin @tchambers @jeffjarvis @newsdesk Great to see other news orgs coming aboard!

I am heartbroken by this news. 5 are dead and 18 wounded from this horrific armed assault at a gay club hosting a drag show night in Colorado Springs.

An attack upon our community anywhere is an attack upon us all everywhere. My heart is with the victims and their families.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting-gay-nightclub/index.html

I don’t know what you all think but Twitter often feels lonely. The sense of community here is amazing and the warmth & affection I’ve experienced since I arrived yesterday has been incredible. My thoughts so far is that something very special is happening here. I’m still going to be saying boll**** quite a lot though!

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

20 November 1945 | The 1st Nuremberg Trial started. 24 political & military leaders of the German Third Reich were tried. Twelve were sentenced to death.

The purpose of the trial was not just to convict the defendants but also to assemble evidence of Nazi crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans, and delegitimize the traditional German elite.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

List od defendants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defendants_at_the_International_Military_Tribunal

#history #justice #WorldWar2 #histodons #Nazis #Germany

​ Have friends that would like to move to mstdn.ca?

This article by @chad takes the process step-by-step: https://news.mstdn.ca/migrating-your-account-to-mstdn-ca/

#TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration #feditps

With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.

If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.

20 November 1924 | A Lithuanian Jewish girl, Sara Samilowas, was born in Žasliai. She emigrated to France.
On 20 July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers. She did not survive.
#history #Holocaust #Lithuania #France #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Jews 
See our online lesson dedicated to the fate of #women in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
#education #elearning

Don't be naive folks. That poll had nothing to do with it.

So yesterday I spoke of the need to #FundTheFediverse - to build critical infrastructure for the #Fediverse & the need to do so before the next item in the #MuskPocolypse occurs. (Which, at this rate, seems daily)

These are my ideas: in 🧵 form.

1. The first obvious thing is to donate to your local instance admin, find their Patreon, usually on their about page, and give even $1 dollar.

Make it happen. Give $8 bucks if you want the added benefit of mocking Elon.

Next one in the reply.

OK this is (or should be) obvious too.

3. Fund @Gargron's non-profit. This builds:

☑️ The Official Mastodon app for iOS & Android
☑️ The flagship site mastodon.social & mastodon.online, as well as:
☑️ joinmastodon.org, the onboarding page of the project and related APIs
☑️ docs.joinmastodon.org, the documentation for the project - helping developers everywhere.

This is key infrastructure that needs more 💰 stat. These need to handle tons more traffic & upgrades now.

https://www.patreon.com/mastodon/about

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

@georgetakei Glad to see you arrived safely.

And yes, we've joined here too! Aiming to spread important climate science news and making it accessible globally. #climate #science #scicomm #follow

Ok next:

5. If you are on a larger Instance, consider moving to a medium-small one that is run by a responsible admin who has signed the Mastondon Server Convenant.

This does two things:

☑️ Empties a seat on those big, more known instances for newbies
☑️ Distributes the load of current users out

As @hollie put it so well:

"Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW! "

2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.

2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.

2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.

Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.

#Mastodon #Twitter #TwitterMigration

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

Global temperatures over land are rising substantial faster than for the oceans... so how does that compare with the #Arctic?

+ I will update this graphic annually at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/.
+ Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/.

If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden