David Cunliffe @dxc@qoto.org

it feels like I’ve landed at the airport and not sure where I can find the best route to the beach. #twittermigration

Two Soups by Jack Vettriano

Not tooting much yet: still trying to listen and learn Mastodon’s ways (I like wrappers! Those are good). It seems very nice here. I’m trying to avoid being part of the loutish Twitter gang, stomping into the formerly serene Mastodon village, honking their toot horns, putting their feet up on the furniture, and threatening to buy this place and turn it into a Wetherspoon’s. Thank you old friends and new for being so welcoming!

Ok, so I just moved to my own server.

I’m astonished at how painless it was.

I understand there’s a federated Facebook-alike too.

If ISPs start offering federated social media servers to their customers, like they do email, it could finish the privacy stealing, data harvesting big social media monoliths. There would be no need to use them any more. It would just be a service, like email, with no ulterior motive.

God, I hope it comes to pass.

There once was a spaceman called Musk,
Who hollowed the bird to a husk,
We migrated and flew,
To find friends old and new,
And now we are fans of the tusk 🦣

#VerseThursday

Rishi Sunak's party is starting to fear there's even less to him than meets the eye. https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/10/rishi-sunaks-party-fears-there-is-less-to-him-than-meets-the-eye/

hey guys from Twitter.

we are glad to see you here but please understand that the fact that fediverse is anti-viral, anti-hierarchy and anti-capitalist is the point of it

please also understand that CWs, alt text and other stuff here is not there to "silence you" — it is to allow users greater agency over their feeds for their mental benefit, and to support disabled people.

this network was built by marginalized people. who disliked Twitter for the same reasons you do.

don't bring it back.

Leading Brexiteer and former Boris Johnson advisor, Lord David Frost, has now gone to work for the Tufton Street, climate-change denying, fossil fuel industry-funded, so-called think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.