Eubie Drew (QOTO ๐ฆฃ) @EubieDrew@qoto.org
- Inactive ๐ฆ
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist ๐
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #๐ ช๐๐ฐ
Joined Nov 2022
I have a split presence on #mastodon and in life.
#STEM and #fediverse: @EubieDrew
#Activism and #woke: @EubieDrew
I have merged their following lists.
#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *...
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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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๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ฉ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ค๐ฉ๐จ.
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
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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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Elon Musk banning Mastodonโs account on #Twitter be like...
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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.
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Microbiologists are larger than one might expect.
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They should have mummified the Queen and sent her to Egypt to be displayed in a museum
Ha!
I #LeaveTwitter and one of my last replies about #abuse goes actually #viral and ๐ฏ% positive response.
RT @EubieDrew@twitter.com
Sometimes real freedom is giving up all hope.
That sounds so negative, but it is actually a very positive thing to realize.
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I donโt think Mastodon is โtoo complexโ, thatโs not the problem.
I think #Mastodon requires _intentionality_: people need to be very deliberate about their social media usage, the content the consume or publish etc. Before, on Twitter, it was largely superseded by algorithms.
This is very similar to "cutting the cord": transitioning from mindless pre-programmed TV consumption to deliberate streaming subscriptions. #twittermigration
- Inactive ๐ฆ
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist ๐
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #๐ ช๐๐ฐ
Joined Nov 2022
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