Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org
- Inactive 🐦
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist 🐘
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
Comments continue going very strong on this #BlackMastodon toot.
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7/Third, bigger isn't better. While people are certainly welcome to operate big mastodon instances, size will invite more moderation challenges and drama. Concentrated power over moderation/federation decisions will tend to draw challengers and drama.
This can be avoided by keeping instances to a more manageable size, and I think will ultimately tend to help grow cross-cutting social ties.
We simply shouldn't be looking to replicate Twitter (or other platforms) here.
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6/First, optimize for cross-cutting social ties. Excess optimizing for homophily will tend to make people more reactive, subject to behavioral control, and will tend to make us more unruly and less able to self-govern. Human curation, randomness, and lack of algorithms optimizing for "engagement" can help a LOT.
Second, clout-chasing and hustle culture are antagonistic. Trying to be the biggest, most important or elite here will tend to create drama and noise that erodes cross-cutting ties.
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@majorlinux @BlackAzizAnansi that speaks to a larger issue about capitalism and survival. Many Black folks have found social media to be a useful tool to earn a living way above what any job could pay them, and unfortunately over the past decade developers were paid to figure out ways to keep users on their platforms and Black content creators were nurtured in that consciousness. Mastodon is a different why. This culture is more for developers, so it’s different.
@clive @ethanz@octodon.social
IMO, the pre-Elon Twitter niche is inevitable, but it will take time, perhaps even a year.
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GoComics.com is still offline. Here is today's installment of Super-Fun-Pak Comix
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https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com
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@EubieDrew @C_Stroop @TracyReneeJones @siditty @DryerBuzz @bugsact @Christelyn @absurdistwords @greg_doucette @ListsAtlow @kamilkazani @MduncanNp @ziibiing @VeryWhiteGuy @Peaceforce Thank you...appreciate the invitation. I'm not sure what I'm doing with social media right now. Haven't really been active anywhere in years. But the most fun I had with social media was in the early days of Twitter so am a bit tempted to…
https://twitter.com/mikhaill/status/1594897142568685570
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the norm that you should listen to marginalized people about their oppression is a good one and has gained some traction. but the default in many (most) spaces/situations is that a big part of the experience of oppression is the experience of being silenced.
@haven4books @actuallyautistic Perhaps, for sensory reasons, some autistics can only tolerate smaller in-ear devices. Less pressure against ear canal wall?
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@DryerBuzz @C_Stroop @TracyReneeJones @siditty @bugsact @Christelyn @absurdistwords @mikhaill @greg_doucette @ListsAtlow @kamilkazani @MduncanNp @ziibiing @VeryWhiteGuy @Peaceforce You can't search plain text, just hashtags. Tags that are hot on #Mastodon are things involving crafts, hobbies, academic stuff, writing, news, politics, marginalized identities, art, photography, anything computer or IT, Twitter, scienc…
https://twitter.com/EubieDrew/status/1594864279202979840
He does not like being fact-checked.
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CW: Must-read thread by Kola Boof
This QT will go to my Twitter followers & my #Mastodon followers by #crosspost.
To read this 🧵on #Twitter, you have to be comfortable with allegory, metaphor & rhetoric. It is here to broaden your perspective, not empirical facts. 31 posts.
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KOLA -- what is the difference between "Turning White" and these folks having SEX CHANGES?
....glad you asked....lets break this down.
THREAD:
https://twitter.com/KolaBoof3/status/1594804488853782528
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Kola Boof
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The CONDITION of the planet aligns with the condition of our Mothers.
And unfortunately MEN do not see that fact....
This is what I mean by "God Is a Woman"
....HER BODY makes us and releases us, feeds us, warms us.
Our MOTHER strives to understand and care for us.
https://twitter.com/KolaBoof3/status/1594821355689517056
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There were two notable moderation incidents on mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the past 24 hours that I would like to address. In the first, a post was wrongfully removed due to a report claiming it contained a dogwhistle, and in the second, a person was wrongfully suspended due to a report claiming it's an impersonator. Both were undone and apologies issued.
The prospects for my identity (old White guy) in US politics
Unfortunately, my identity (old White guys) is driving authoritarian politics, which means we will not get relief until many of us have died off. I will probably not get to see it.
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Going to suggest my #mastodon server https://qoto.org/invite/NbjJzWBA to some of my dearest #Twitter #moots: @daniellecbelton @Comparativist @DrPaulDrew @NPRMichel @demetriallucas
- Inactive 🐦
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist 🐘
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
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