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
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I want to be happy here.
But my Black friends keep getting banned for doing justice work.
Or just... Existing.
At a much quieter volume than I do.
If people didn’t know me or who I’m connected to, would I be gone by now too? 😔
How do you exist in a world where your cultural norm is frowned upon?
Why do I always have to compromise with the oppression dynamic
or get removed? 😭
It’s painful.
And there’s no reason to it.
And all the “solutions” include bowing to that same dynamic.
UPDATE:
#Pleroma instance public.garden appears worthwhile.
My <a rel="me" href="https://qoto.org/@EubieDrew">Mastodon</a> account
If you really want to understand #Russia, #Russians, and #RussianHistory, you have to closely follow @kamilkazani (#KamilGaleev). It takes some effort, but it is worth it. I hope he realizes someday he needs to be on #MastodonSocial.
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RT @kamilkazani
National Divorce
Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the …
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1600551806429544452
Comparing :Twitter: to :Mastodon:
Pretty much everything I valued at #Twitter has moved to some extent to #Mastodon. So why do I still visit?
I've come to realize that the main factor is simply scale. The content quality on the pachyderm 🐘 is an order of magnitude better, but also pretty thin when looking at any sufficiently narrow subject.
And, in the other direction, your audience reach is more engaged, but much smaller. (That's actually a feature, not a bug, for me.)
I do NOT feel in touch with the world when on the #Fediverse, compared to the #birdsite 🐦 . News eventually arrives, but hardly instant.
So a long way to get to asking:
Are most of the shortcomings of #distributed #socialmedia just about scale? Can we grow into a more satisfying experience.
Or perhaps, there by dragons?
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My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.
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We all have to make decisions about who we are and who we want to be, and if we aren't mindful of how we treat others and why we do so, the decisions get made thoughtlessly and the environment becomes toxic. Mastodon is an opportunity for Twitter expats to reexamine and reframe our relationship with online life in hopes of leaving behind the parts of the old community that were harmful - but it's also a responsibility to do so. I truly don't want this place to become that place.
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I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
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now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it
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When a superdense, concentrated mass forms a black hole, the laws of physics around it change, giving rise to an eldritch zone where the normal rules don't apply. When corporations form a concentrated industry, the laws of economics likewise change.
Take copyright: when I was a baby writer, there were dozens of comparably sized New York publishers. The writers who mentored me could shop their rights around to lots of houses, which enabled them to subdivide those rights.
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Remember, start your passwords with a comma to fuck up the CSV of the inevitable breach dump.
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oh shit it's mansplaining as a service
Not saying we are there yet, but should we proactively worry about #QOTO.org getting too large? Best to think about this before it actually happens.
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Is something inherent lost *whenever* a #Mastodon #instance goes large?
(The advantages are obvious, but perhaps the disadvantages, though hidden, are just as bad.)
At what size does #MastoAdmin inevitably become corporate in character, despite all intentions?
Should there be deliberate intentional deconstruction into smaller instances at some point, and explicitly planned?
#UFoI-adjacent issue.
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Anywho, all that to say: don't shoot the messenger. Mastodon's a great alternative to Twitter, and demonstrates potential for becoming a sustainable, step-function improvement over the billionaire-funded platforms we have today. In order to realize Mastodon's full potential, it will need to adapt to accommodate small and independent business ventures. It costs money to keep these servers running, someone needs to figure out how to keep the lights on. And, I'd favor an ecosystem that builds...
quality twitter cross-post
Showing us who they are.
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RT @jbf1755
When a former President, who wants to be a future president, says he wants to terminate constitutional electoral rules, and leaders in his party remain silent, or worse, continue to support him, they have shown themselves for who they are.
Believe them.
https://twitter.com/jbf1755/status/1599355584184258560
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Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar
Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong
Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more
Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That
Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you
(Oops:
- I did it again)
- 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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