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
#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *...
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Long thread/8
Every moderator you pay to reduce harassment draws a salary at the expense of your shareholders, and every catastrophe that moderator prevents is a catastrophe you can't turn into monetizable attention as gawking users flock to it.
So social media sites are always trying to optimize their mistreatment of users, mistreating them (and thus profiting from them) right up to the point where they are ready to switch, but without actually pushing them over the edge.
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I think (because I am very good at math and speaking with an authoritative voice) that visibility for the question will increase 10x when brought in thread. Some people never read replies. A heavy reply stream can become tl;dr.
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨.
Get on your Mastodon account. Search for the account (example: @Teri_Kanefield). When the search result shows up, click on it.
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Follow the account, if you don't already; this only works with followed accounts. Immediately to the right of the Follow/Unfollow button should be a bell like symbol. If you hover over the bell with your mouse cursor, you should get a text bubble that says "Notify me when @Teri_Kanefield posts". Click this bell ONCE.
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It will make a very subtle change in color on most instances, easy to miss. If you want to check if you did it right, hover over it a again (careful not to click) and you should get a text bubble that says "Stop notifying me when @Teri_Kanefield posts".
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Sadly, text bubbles are not captured in screen shots.
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I'm buying spacekaren.sucks #twitter #birdsite #journalists
About Twitter 😢
It could be worse. It could be that being run by a fascist fanatic happened to be a good business model. It clearly isn't, and that's great.
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Please help me get my followers up, folks.
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BTW, the fact that many major servers are completely banned from being shared on Twitter, being flagged as malware and disallowed if added to a bio, and even banned from being shared in DM's on #Twitter, should be a bigger story that it is.
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Hello. Is this thing on?
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Personally, I'm not clear if anything is going to function well until we've had enough global civil unrest, economic devastation, needless death, and abject misery to decide on the whole as a species, "Ok, ok... enough of this, we're done playing now."
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There is no life without struggle. I'd rather see Mastodon succeed as long as it takes for something obviously better to supplant it... IF IT EVER DOES. I suppose, as a guess, people are still using gopher: servers and USENET. They are certainly still using IRC. Did those actually "fail"? Would they have "failed" if nobody *was* currently using them?
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I've written a short commentary on extreme precipitation in #Alaska and why we, as a state, need to act now. Published by the Alaska Beacon #akwx #Arctic #extremeweather #climate #climatechange @tomhewittnews @Climatologist49
https://alaskabeacon.com/2022/12/15/in-changing-climate-alaska-risks-extreme-precipitation/
@JoinMastodon@twitter.com
, the acct
@elonmusk@twitter.com
is so afraid of he suspended it.
Which platforms are you used to?
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Microbiologists are larger than one might expect.
Wearing the crown jewels.
- 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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