ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

We’ve advised journalists to set up their own Mastodon accounts and servers. This kind of federated social media puts people and communities in control. It can guarantee journalistic freedoms, which #ElonMusk and #Twitter have demonstrated are precarious in their centralised, monopoly products. #fediverse https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/16/twitter-elon-musk-suspension-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns

Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.

It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Elon #Musk ‘orders Twitter to remove suicide prevention feature’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/23/elon-musk-orders-twitter-to-remove-suicide-prevention-feature "sources with knowledge of his decision declined to be named because they feared retaliation.". how hated does he want to be?

@ct_bergstrom I spend a ton of time documenting why people are so wasteful and destructive and yet I still get blindsided by it all the time. Studying an illogical thing doesn't mean it won't continue to chafe against your logic regularly ❤️

NEW: Twitter is shutting down its data center in Sacramento and downsizing another in Atlanta by early Jan, likely as a cost saving measure. This means a huge amount of traffic will be shifted to its remaining data centers, which could result in increased instability.

if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over

every detail of this is astonishing - a lost Mayan civilization found in the rainforest

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-huge-year-old-mayan-civilization-northern.html

#Musk puts too much faith in #AI at #Twitter. It will fail him. He needs good people & policies. He fired the people & broke the policies.
#Jetsons #Uniblab

.@zoeschiffer reports that Luke Simon -- one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants at Twitter -- appears to be out. He's been deactivated on Slack. Luke is the manager who bashed laid off engineers calling them lazy and potentially disloyal to Musk
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #elonmusk #technology #news

Just to prove that quote boosting can be done on the Fediverse (although not on Mastodon) here's screenshots of me quote boosting @taylorlorenz post!

@antares @boazbaraktcs@sigmoid.socialoh, wow. i'm aware of Kiwi Farms and their aggressive harm. This is a great #usecase of how #Mastodon is being built and for whom.

setting up shop here is like marrying into a family—there's history! learn it.

as opposed to star gazing at celebrities on the bird site—and pining for attention and an autograph.

So, with the Fediverse being all open source and all, someone could conceivably create a widget that shows how many times you've tooted, displayed as a rolling mechanical counter: the mastodometer.

#Buffalo the view from my kitchen window of my garage. Maybe 30 feet?

Just joined Mastodon, somewhat late to the party. @PippaNorris

Hope there are networks of political scientists here too...

@politicalscience

102.2 million reported cases of #COVID-19 in the US now. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

As temperatures drop and thousands of migrants still in the city, leaders in El Paso have been scrambling to open up emergency shelter beds as quickly as they can, but only some migrants qualify to stay.

https://t.co/LTHdmr0osG

@boazbaraktcs Perhaps it would be, but right now such an instance would likely fine itself broadly defederated.

There is history here. A message board called Kiwi Farms developed search tools for the fediverse with the stated intent of finding and harassing LGBT people. Prior to the twitter migration it was probably the most impactful thing to occur in the fediverse. Any instance found to be using Kiwi Farms indexing tools was quickly and aggressively defederated and even instances that federated with those instances were targeted. (Full disclosure: the instance this account uses Qoto.org falls into the latter category and is still on a lot of default block lists)

I'm not saying it will never happen. The project is open source and if there is enough demand someone will write the code. Given the recent history, I would not expect the large legacy instances to change in the near future.

@mepurfield @actuallyautistic unfortunately a lot of those accounts are either from parents of autistic children or from people related or associated to hate groups such as Autism Speaks. I follow many autistic activists on the birdsite who are like you describe. I wish they'd come over to Mastodon!

@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social quote posting is available with alternative server software! I wish more people knew this

@KimCrayton1