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

Federation does not fix moderation problems. Only moderation fixes moderation problems.

@joshtpm The worse the bird-place has become—and it has been a visible day-by-day devolution into exactly the kind of hate-filled hellscape its owner assured its advertisers wouldn't happen—the more the decent folks are voting with their feet, so to speak.

And Mastodon is currently the best alternative for those of us who just want to chat, share stuff, get some news, and interact peaceably with one another. (Which is all most of us wanted at the bird-place, for that matter.)

Ok, the game is over, thanks to almost everyone who played:

- Friends and people who who joked along
- People who did not know and were confused but polite
- People who did not know and were very excited to explain it to me anyway! Some of you did a good job, all of you proved a point, some of you laughed along when you realized what was going on

Sorry no consolation prize to the people who got mad or told me I couldn't have been co-author of the spec once they found out, but at least in this one context you provided comic relief to everyone

please boost this message across the network as far as you can I think it's really about time someone explained activitypub to me

Not that I expect this toot will have a big audience of cishet folks, but this ones for them.

Ahem... TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEEK IS NOT A FUCKING CELEBRATION. IT LEADS UP TO A DAY WHEN WE MOURN OUR DEAD. PLEASE LEARN THE FUCKING DISTINCTION.

Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

*** POLL ***

How would you describe yourself politically?

Please vote, comment, and BOOST (very important)

Thank you.

It is simply not right that Miss Universe is always from this galaxy.

Thought:
What if an effort could be organized to help the H1b #twitter employees and employees dependent on uninterrupted health care - who want to leave - find positions elsewhere? Let’s do what we can to debilitate the platform.
#elonmusk #ElonMusk #DefendDemocracy #antifascism #twittermigration #community #tech #techjobs #TechJobs #fedijobs #FediJobs #WhatHashtagsAmIMissing

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR TWITTER

You just pin your last tweet, Pete,
Request your archive, Clive,
You don’t need a blue tick, Vic,
Just get yourself free.

Hop on the tusk, Gus,
You don’t need to delete much,
Except your DMs, Jen,
And get yourself free.

Use Debirdify, Di,
Provide some alt tags, Mags,
Add a content warning, Tim,
To post sensitively.

Remember to boost, Ruth
You don't need to deny truth,
Just drop off the perch, Dirk,
And get yourself free.
#VerseThurday #TwitterMigration #FediTips

So basically Elon is doing the end of Ghostbusters, except instead of ghosts it’s Nazis?

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.