Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

A+ idea—how hard can it be? Hire reporters, writers, editors, & fact-checkers. Don't forget to factcheck & proofread everything, incl. photo captions & cartoons. It's "Book of Revelation" not "Revelations"; women's shirts button on the left; no "the reason is because," etc. etc.

Features I’d love to see on Mastodon (imo!)
✨ Link previews (pull headline & image from the story)
✨ Quote tweet type functions (totally disagree this encourages harassment! It’s a way to add to other’s ideas, like a reblog on Tumblr)
✨ Better search functionality and discovery to find all the great people and content buried on here
✨Direct messaging to continue certain convos in private and build deeper connections
#technology #tech #twitterrefugee #twitter #twittermi #media #news #journalism

It’s funny how different the mood is on the two apps.

Here, people are excited and curious, helping each other figure things out, making connections, offering advice, re-assembling communities & networks, and an overall optimism about non-corporate social media.

Back on birdapp, it’s a mix of gloom and doom combined with comments about how awful Mastodon is.

Maybe this will combust, implode, fail, and be forgotten. But I’m glad we’re here together, now. #TwitterMigration

Hello good people - can we get a retoot or whatever so as to find the #geomorphology #cryosphere #glacier #geohazard and #satellite researchers? Let's build a community.

Dear #ScienceMastodon, you guys toot from around the world. Let me hear your opinion on this:

Imagine someone in her thirties. She has lived a chaotic life due to her ADHD she never knew she had. Finally she goes to university to graduate. She will be in her fourties when she's done. Her fellow students call her Ma'am.

Will she make it as a scientist?
Will science people laugh at her?
Would you?

Do you know scientist with a CV like mine? I'd love to know them.

#science #academic

One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone.

So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1

#TwitterMigration

@EubieDrew We on the left are always wringing our hands about being open minded and considering other points of view, but how do we deal with this ... is psychosis the right word? If it were just a few people, we could ignore them, but it's literally most of one of our two major parties, and therefore a good fraction of the country.

@EubieDrew testning, testubf

We’re on day 5 of recovery after the cyberattack that made us close observing operations at #ALMA… many thanks to all people at the observatory that left all their plans on a long weekend to help assess, contain, and now recover operations… https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/alma-observatory-shuts-down-operations-due-to-a-cyberattack/