Human-ITy @HumanITy@qoto.org

I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.

In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12

#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex

The TL;DR of the Twitter files is this:
Certain foreign governments have been known to engage in hacking to obtain dirt on politicians, which they then leak around election time to influence voters (remember the DNC leaks? That was Russian Intelligence). Social media platforms are aware of this, and are actively working to try and limit foreign intelligence agencies ability to influences the public via these 'hack-and-leak' operations.

Several US government agencies track this from the intelligence side (monitoring the people doing the hacking and leaking). It makes sense for the government to give a heads up to social media platforms about potential upcoming influence operations so the platforms can get ahead of it. In the case of Hunter Biden's Laptop, this is what they did. The heads up resulted in several platforms basically deciding to flat out block links to the story altogether. US politicians on the side who would have benefitted from these leaks tried to frame it as government censorship (The FBI simply gave a heads up to social media platforms, but didn't state how the story should be dealt with, as that would be a clear cut violation of the first amendment).

The Twitter files is just data pertaining to the legal process from the FBI working with companies to notify them of influence ops. None of the released files suggest any censorship, and it's mostly just really boring internal politics. But, the current Twitter CEO knows that people on Twitter only read headlines, so by adding their own commentary to the releases, they can spin it in such a way that people will believe there's some big conspiracy afoot.

So much human suffering would be alleviate if we normalised the capacity for humans to be able to say to themselves and the world 'huh, you know what? I was wrong about that thing'

Medieval tapestry surfaced showing the #TwitterExodus into the #fediverse!

#TwitterExile #newhere #neuhier #MedievalMeme #Mastodon

Our last full day in South Wales. A beautiful day meant walking the entire Elidir Trail for some glorious falls in Waterfall Country.

Here I shot probably the best waterfall photo I’ve ever taken.

#landscape #landscapephotography #autumn #fall #nature #travel #southwales #wales #powys #uk #britain #waterfall #gorge

New people! Time to tell you more about the Fediverse

Mastodon is just one kind of server on a much bigger network called the Fediverse. Many of the people you follow on Mastodon aren't on Mastodon servers.

Servers on the Fediverse use a common open technical standard called ActivityPub. This means people on different kinds of ActivityPub-compatible servers can follow each other.

For example the photo account at https://pixelfed.social/Iancylkowski can be followed at @Iancylkowski

Try it!

You might have seen the term #fediverse in the last few days. But what exactly is it in plain-ish terms?

1️⃣ A series of interconnected servers
2️⃣ Most importantly, it’s decentralised
3️⃣ Stands for “federation” and “universe”

The fediverse goes well beyond just #Mastodon and it allows users to interact from one platform with many others.
#mastotips #twittermigation

Some easy tips I've used to grow a following on #Mastodon:

1️⃣ Make the first move! Use the follow button generously (you can easily unfollow later to clear up your home timeline)

2️⃣ Ask questions and post Toots people will want to boost 🔁 Useful info, something relatable, cats!

3️⃣ Recognise it takes time. Even the bird app wasn't built in a day. What works on other platforms might not fly here. Test, learn, have fun 🤗

Find this useful? I post lots of tips! Come join the party #twittermigration

123. The woods. A touch of cabin fever, and picking a paper that's no fun to draw on, and suddenly I'm days behind. Oh well, the important thing is to keep at it. I guess.

#trees #forest #pnwwoods #mastoart

Hi everyone. I’m converting from Twitter.
#introduction
#twittermigration

My #introduction: I am a #philosopher working at the University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the #UK.

My research focuses on topics on #health and #medicine across #epistemology, #moralphilosophy, and #politicalphilosophy.

Interests includes: #planetaryhealth, #environmentaljustice, #healthdata, #indigenousphilosophy, #sustainability, #climatechange, #scicom, #liberty, #property, #historyofscience.

The four stages of Mastodon user:
* what’s a Mastodon
* I feel lost and alone how does this work
* oh wow this is actually pretty cool
* I’m an instance admin now

Green and wolves #digitalpainting #illustration

First post, old painting of mine called Isle of Emuu:

Sacred home to all beasts. Should a human enter, they will lose their human form and memories.

I've been on here for a while, but hey, since there's an influx of users that might still see the original instance
Greetings, fellow Mastodorks! I am Anatoly Shashkin, the DOS guy. I mainly talk about stuff related to IBM PC and MS-DOS gaming. Tell me about your DOS memories or recent DOS escapades. 💾
I also enjoy cats 🐈, movies 🎥, and alcohol 🥂.
Moved from Russia to the U.S. almost 20 years ago.
#DOSGaming #MSDOS #IBMPC #introductuons #RetroGaming #Videogames