Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

After just a few hours on #Mastodon, it kind of feels like I slipped away from the #Twitter living room where the obnoxious party crashers were wrecking everything. And now I've found the basement where all the original cool partygoers are hiding from the trolls and enjoying each other's company.

A thing about Mastodon that I didn't realize I'd missed from pre-algorithm Twitter is the sheer randomness of the content. No longer honed to be hyper-engaging (usually by being scary or enraging) I now see weird experiments, fun scientific papers, random shitposts. Of course it's not all exactly in my wheelhouse, but that makes it simultaneously more *interesting* while being less *addictive*. The whole experience feels a lot healthier for my brain.

@jeffjarvis @mmasnick Yup. It all comes down to one simple truth: writing computer code is 10x easier than reading computer code.

And people like Musk simply aren't willing to put in the work. Which makes his decision to not pay people who already put in the work twice as insane.

Elon Musk is just an asshole, and looking at this response from the disabled employee he just fired and repeatedly insulted, he's talked his ignorant ass into a huge ADA lawsuit.

Musk has no idea how much he is torching his reputation. He's gone from the next Henry Ford minus the racism to Henry Ford *with nothing but the racism.*

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633082707835080705.html

#ElonMusk #Asshole #SpaceKaren #BadBosses #Twitter

I sense another influx of new users coming to the #fediverse soon. So I really think we should do our part to manage expectations.

If you are coming to #Mastodon for the #Twitter experience, I really have to caution you - a lot of us #mastoadmin don't know how to replicate the level of brokenness you're accustomed to.

If you want, every once in a while we can just turn the server off or something. If more people sign up for the Patreon I might be able to hire a part time troll for shift work.

oh look, it’s: freight vs passenger rail

But by all means, this is the guy who should be allowed to implant chips in human brains.

I don't mind that "Massachusetts" is hard to spell, I am however a little indignant that people there never came up with a decent song to teach us all how to spell it. If Mississippi can do it, you can do it, Masechussets.

Not to be an alarmist, but this is fucking terrifying. https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/