Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org

Had a lovely dinner this evening with people who, let's say... they work in and around the social media world. The general conclusion is that, even as people were skeptical that Elon would know what to do with Twitter... what has happened in the last few weeks is still beyond what anyone could have possibly imagined.

So you're just getting started in Mastodon huh?

Here's a neat thing. On the web interface you can search for a Hashtag.

Same as you can on Twitter.

Something like #Ukraine, for example

But on the search results, see that little user icon on the right? Click it and you'll follow it as if it's a user!

New posts with that tag will arrive in your home page, even if you don't follow the author yet

remember that favs have no impact on ranking here, which doesn’t exist

you gotta boost them toots

I wrote this guide to DMs on Mastodon last week (prob longer than it needed to be)

tl;dr: you should think of DMs as a courteous way of posting to other users directly b/c the convo is just of no value to anyone else & you don’t want to flood people’s feeds. It’s not a “privacy” thing. It’s a visibility thing.

https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-how-to-dm-send-messages-twitter-1849759852

@Decad3nce we have some extwitter devs on qoto. There was a discussion about it here earlier... it sounded oretty bad.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the things I am really enjoying here is the ability to be quiet. I hadn't really recognized how performative Twitter had been. This is a very positive space for discussing science. I only wish I was better at finding and following the communities of interest. Is this done with hashtags?

This will be a day for the pages of history. #Twitter
High intensity drama is coming.

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap worker in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

@rootfs I reported his reply to one of the devs, where he accused them of having Tourette’s. Unsurprisingly, his moderation team decided it didn’t violate their CoC. Which now states “Elon can do whatever he wants”.

WSJ: "Cryptocurrency lender Genesis was seeking an emergency loan of $1 billion from investors before it told clients it was suspending redemptions this week..."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-11-17-2022/card/crypto-lender-genesis-sought-emergency-loan-of-1-billion-by-monday-573TThK17Ke15FYwJzLR

@mattblaze @jeffjarvis This strongly argues for organizations of journalists to create their own instances with rules and practices serving the health of public discourse.

You may have heard that the principals of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange were into Effective Altruism.

Let me explain what Effective Altruism is:

* Some charities are more effective than others, and you should donate to the more effective ones.

yeah, sounds obvious and sensible

* As a first-worlder, you are basically rich, even if you don’t feel like it, and you therefore have an ethical obligation to contribute to those who aren’t - almost certainly more than you do now.

this is pretty sound reasoning actually, I can get behind this

* Therefore, we can and should stack-rank every charitable initiative in the world according to an objective numerical scoring system,

wait what

* and clearly the most cost-effective initiative possible for all of humanity is donating to fight the prospect of unfriendly artificial intelligence,,

what the

* and oh look, we just happen to have a charity for that precise purpose right here! WHAT ARE THE ODDS,,,,

fuckin