Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org

I've turned off seeing all content warnings in the settings. Nothing upsets me. I have no problem with people using them, especially for spoilers of shows I haven't seen yet. But I'll just avert my eyes, for now.

I just got scolded for failing to put a "content warning" on the previous post. Sorry, but no.

I try very hard to be polite and follow norms, here and in person. But politics, policy, technology, and their intersection are not merely topics I find interesting in passing, they're central to my work and identity. If you find those things difficult - and I know some people, quite reasonably, do - you really should unfollow and perhaps mute or block me.

Sorry to be harsh, but I am who I am.

a reminder: just as you don’t have to amplify facsists or give them your time, energy and attention on Twitter, you sure as fuck don’t have to bring it over here.

Social networks need critical mass to sustain themselves.

Part of that is making sure this site has that critical mass by encouraging folks to come here.

Part of that is making sure bird site isn't a place where you provide free content anymore.

There's a good chance when you joined here, you cared more about the first of those as a hedge against bird site dying.

But if recent changes mean you want birdsite to affirmatively die, you'll need to do both.

#NoFreeContentForFascists

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

@Pwnallthethings just signed out of the bird poop site for good. As you said, vote with your feet.

T is being reinstated on Twitter. You’ll pretty much be finding me here from now on.

Trump's account is back at the other site (though he hasn't tweeted anything new, but the account is visible). Going to make an even more concerted effort to spend much of the time I spent there here instead.

Also a reminder that crossposting back to bird site makes it easier for people to stay there and hides how folks are leaving.

Whether you continue to do that is up to you, of course, and will be dependent on how much your circles of friends have already jumped ship.

But if lots already have, consider not doing that to encourage friends to leave the main character battle arena site and join better alternatives.

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

"CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform."

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/cbs-news-pauses-twitter-posting-1235437572/

"In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

Good advice for folks running open Mastodon instances in the US, regarding DMCA registration. Doing this early will avoid problems early, especially if you have a large general-purpose and open instance https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024

This piece on Wired about Black Twitter is worth your time. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, about how uneven a migration to a new space ends up being.

It also is one thing I'm eyeing about Mastodon. There's a danger that servers become silos if we aren't intentional. If you listen to some of the Black scholars in my field, they are saying as much. Twitter makes their work visible across groups.

So how do we federate for inclusion? It will be a challenge.

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/

Think how much fiber would have been laid if building something was as valued as mergers and acquisitions.

Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever? https://nyti.ms/3ELu7Gb

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.

I've decided to follow anyone who looks interesting even if they don't match my interests. After a month or two I can trim that list. It is easy to do on qoto.org since the follow button can be displayed under the icon.