ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

When I turned 70, I thought, “Well, that’s it. I’ve had a great career, but it’s winding down.”
Boy, was I wrong. I found social media, and then a second wind at my sails in my 70s! I made my Broadway debut at 78, and I’ll make my London debut at 85.
Life is truly wonderful and magical.

If you’re in London, come see me in Allegiance starting in January. Tix here: https://allegiancemusical.com

It's really interesting how this "old" tool wasn't degrading service until Musk fired all the people who knew how the service worked and how to manage it (including the toolset used to do that) and started turning bits of it off 🤔

#twitter

People in China challenging XJP are risking it all for everything.

If you're planning to leave Twitter because a sociopath CEO makes you sick to your stomach and is wrecking the place, please think twice before heading to another centralized service where you risk the same problem at some point.

Decentralized is the best way forward.

OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:

European Union: EU Voice >>> https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> https://social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> https://mastodon.archive.org/explore

#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance

as sad as i am about the rapid destruction of twitter, the (re)surge in blogs and newsletters has been lovely

back to the #indieweb!

Heads up everybody! Those of us that are a part of this #Fediverse that don't use #Mastodon don't fucking matter apparently! At least according to @vespertilio.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is its fucking diversity.

aus.social/@vespertilio/109418795730910789

Hey, if you're a tankie who supports Putin's invasion, please let me know so I can block you.

Ok, thanks, bye!

#politics #tankies

Wait a second....Mastodon offers a desktop equivalent of Tweetdeck. THIS is a game changer!

Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.

I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:

Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.

let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!

And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.

#FediTips

@marcelias I recommend movetodon.org to see who among your Twitter flock exhibits mastodon addresses. Here are lists of academics hereabouts; journalists also in there. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Hopefully someone else can fill in the details but if I remember correctly, 20 or 25 years back there was a short-lived plan to create a federally-funded citation database along the lines of the Web of Science.

Under fierce lobbying pressure from ISI and other informatics providers, the project was scrapped. We are still presuming for that short-sightedness today.

@jeffjarvis Tried to make the positive case for everyone to consider moving, here:

https://mastodon.online/@protecttruth/109416839397830094

"Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to one senior industry figure, leading others to instead reduce their spend to the bare minimum required so as to avoid further confrontation"

https://archive.ph/ziimf

5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/54-million-twitter-users-stolen-data-leaked-online-more-shared-privately/

#Security

#ReasonMagazine’s guide to #Mastodon

https://reason.com/2022/11/25/mystified-by-mastodon-were-here-to-help/

@enbrown #twitter #fediverse #socialmedia #decentralization

If you are looking to read something optimistic about how democracy can prevail and how courts are protecting the right to vote, I suggest the following.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-day-that-protected-democracy/