Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer @magicaltrout@qoto.org

Elon Musk tweeted an image on a whiteboard from a "Twitter HQ code review" that wrapped up early Saturday. The image has attracted nearly 12k upvotes and over 1,000 comments over at the subreddit r/ProgrammerHumor, under the title "Twitter for Dummies". The image itself is an architecture schematic, not code. I put it on a Miro Board and Luke Dubois and Mark Hansen helped annotate it. If you're curious how Twitter's bits work, check it out here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPBnTJmM=/?share_link_id=748653261357

Tusky is much better than the official Mastodon mobile app - it gives you the same visibility as the advanced web browser app i.e. you can see both local and federated timelines, plus other features I'm yet to explore #tusky

If you are new to #mastodon, migrating from #twitter and you love to post videos, please consider posting your video over at a hosting site such as Youtube or Vimeo (others exist). Then post the link, it should show and play in your Toot.
It saves your server from having to store and stream huge quantities of extra data.

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

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

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@Jrz813 @magicaltrout welcome to the new cult

CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/cbs-news-pauses-twitter-posting-1235437572/

Hello World! A quick #introduction about myself... First I'm glad to have finally made the jump from the Twitterverse I look forward to making more friends and expanding my tech network on here like I did over there. A bit about me I'm into #tech #beer #sports and #traveling 🤪 I'm a full-time software developer and a proud #underdogdev ! Looking to follow back so hit the follow please. Thanks!!

White Mars

Full size: https://flic.kr/p/2o13r3h

This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard #NASA #Curiosity on Sol 3653 (2022-11-15 12:47:40 UTC)

More info about this location: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9302/sols-3653-3654-a-scenic-stop/

#Space #Mars #Astrodon #Astronomy #Marsology #Marstodon #Solarocks
©NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/AndreaLuck

PLEASE BOOST: Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.

This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.

Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.

However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!

Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Remember, friends don’t let friends use the official Mastodon apps.

Get yourself Tusky for Android, or Metatext for iOS. Toot! Is also good for iOS.

Enjoy all the timelines and features.

My team in the Office of the CTO at
@HPE
has a number of openings for people with distributed systems and scalability coming up soon.

I hear that some friends from Twitter engineering might be looking. Pass the word.

I joined this site a fortnight ago today.

I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.

Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.

We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.

And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.

It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.

We just got used to it.

And now we are out.

Top tip if you're using mastodon on your mobile, there's an App called Toot - you do have to make a small one off payment for it - but it's much better than the official app. Super user friendly. Migrants from the Bird Place will find it more what they're used to.