Cotton Jack @cottonjack1@qoto.org

wow. facial recognition stopped a mom from going to see the Rockettes at MSG — because she works for a firm with a client suing the arena.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

CNN:

Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:

The only winning move is not to play the game.

#twitter #twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitterrefugees

What a nice way to announce @leo retirement from radio. 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ors8LW5SFyQ

Getting to help Steve Martin with some tech troubles was a doggone delightful way to spend my Saturday afternoon.

Be on the lookout for Episode 1945 of The Tech Guy with @leo and yours truly — should be up in a few hours! https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy

"CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform."

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/cbs-news-pauses-twitter-posting-1235437572/

"In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

Perspectives.

Mastodon existed before droves of people flocked here seeking solace or new territory. In a sense, we’re colonizing it and if we don’t bring an attitude of #humility, #kindness, and #love, we will set this place on fire too.

There’s plenty of darkness on display in the world. I want to do my part not to perpetuate it. (2/2)

#ACallToKindness

Earth rise from #Artemis

This view is the first time it has been seen from a human rated craft since 1972

Source is the wonderful NASA YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxMqWHCTqGM

I did a little comparison: reach and reaction on Twitter and Mastodon.

I picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be more native to Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone.

With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 shares and 179 likes

With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 shares and 195 likes.

Here are the two posts:

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1591147769229557761 [305K followers, 81 shares, 179 likes]

https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109326807884220104 [8.5K followers, 123 RT, 195 likes]

Because twit.social doesn't use relays, our Federated timeline consists only of toots from people our members follow.

In other words, it's the Friends of Your Friends timeline.I prefer it that way because you good people tend to follow other good people.

It's not, however, a firehose à la Twitter. There isn't really anything like that. But as long as we keep looking for interesting people to follow on other instances the Federated Timeline should also grow and enliven.