I've noticed that it's common for people on social media to assume that:
a) people are very good at things simply because they are well known
b) furthermore, that their competence extends to areas outside of their purported wheelhouse
c) conversely, that there aren't a whole loads of very competent people unknown to them
This mindset plays into the development of cults of personality, leading to the deeply problematic grift culture that's dominating society right now.
@freemo Good to know. It would be interesting to have a good UX for letting an organization with a Fediverse domain be able to vouch for accounts that are off its domain in a way that regular users can readily see.
So say NYTimes runs an instance and I become a reporter there. It would be cool if I could use one of those key verification schemes to validate my membership in the org, and Mastodon labels me with an @nytimes.com badge.
I don't think this idea is fully baked, but you probably get the idea.
The European Union knows what's up
The biggest missing piece are official accounts, like corporations, media and government. I think pretty soon we'll see orgs standing up instances on their own domains, which will substitute pretty effectively for verification.
People are gonna be shocked how quickly Twitter activity falls off a cliff. The Mastodon migration has had a couple fits and starts, but at this point, there are only a couple very active independent people I follow on Twitter that aren't here.
@Peteatkorogoro Seems like a quorum to me. Make it so!
A rubber mallet is a very useful tool to own
Somehow, I feel like this is set up to make the next step in this nightmare even more harrowing. Nonetheless, it is pretty incredible what this man has done to his own reputation in the past few months.
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I do not understand why news organisations, and the Guardian in particular, are being so slow to move to Mastodon. Setting up their own instances seems an obvious move.
@apn @oliverdarcy The amount of grace these dudes have for each other is almost touching. If it weren't deeply rooted in a collective superiority complex.
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People making a shocked Pikachu face after being banned from Twitter after breaking no discernable rule other than being on Elon's personal shit list are the same folks who, every time Trump did some batshit thing while president, were the first to shout "what a hypocrite!" or "he can't legally do that!"
Friends, that's how authoritarianism works. They do what they want, then either change the rules or make up an excuse about why, actually, they *can* (which might just be "try to stop me").
The best leaders I've worked with and for are OK with being wrong. They seek out challenges to their perspectives. They know great ideas can come from anybody. DEI simply gives them a language and better toolkit for things they intuitively do.
But eventually, they realized this is a game they couldn't win. No one person can be an authority in DEI, because the whole point is elevating a multitude of voices. They kept saying the wrong things, and instead of having the humility to be okay with being wrong, they started throwing tantrums. "No more politics at work (unless it's my politics!)"
Ego is what happened. The superbrain thing to do was be a thought leader. They learned the language and made small commitments. Sometimes even large commitments, even though many quietly faded away before reaching fruition.
The u-turn on DEI from the charismatic superbrain tech founder class has been illuminating. These are the same people who wrapped themselves in BLM and ERGs a couple years ago. Now they're saying wokeness is public enemy #1. What happened?
Fascinating that I haven't heard a peep about Web3 alternatives to Twitter in these months of crisis.
We are living through a truly epic emperor-has-no-clothes moment in tech. So many emperors, so few clothes.
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Hi, crop scientist here. Wind doesn't "take farmland out of production." You can keep farming under the turbines.
But, it's harder to sell farmland with turbines on it to real estate developers later!
And that's a lot of farmers' real financial plan when you get down to it.
@nmeans someone I was conversing with said Elon claims to use the PIA program, which I believe is for anonymization. Are you saying that he definitively did not do this?
@atomicpoet interesting point. So you can run Mastodon with ActivityPub turned off?
I assume you can horizontally scale an individual instance. If you do this, do the servers sync with ActivityPub, or use something Mastodon-specific?
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