There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them
BTW this is why it was stupid for all those government / emergency services accounts to resume posting on Twitter. Absolutely unreliable in critical situations
@caseynewton I'm wondering if we should look at the functions of Twitter like the Public Library and our cities, etc. should own their instance that gets federated. Then really rich people backed by rich people who must at all costs get their billions back or end in a cage fight won't be able to foist their reality on us.
@happyday @caseynewton Absolutely. Mastodon is a way better model for municipal broadcast messaging.
@mtomczak @caseynewton do you remember when Microsoft came out with BackOffice? We need a "BackSocial" that is a decentralized social platform with flexible content moderation and a protocol (Activity Pub seems fine) for a city to install and run. Geez. I will really try to shut up now. I've had WAY WAY too much coffee. Apologize.
@mtomczak @happyday @caseynewton except for people like me, not exactly a whizz at social media , cannot get good content. I just don’t know how to use this site.
@MsStarryNight @mtomczak @caseynewton I for one am clueless. I've had some luck follwing # (hashtags). Does that make any sense?
@MsStarryNight @mtomczak @happyday @caseynewton Just try to follow lots of accounts and a few hashtags. You can organize the follows on lists if you want to filter the content a bit.
@FediFollows posts regularly posts some suggestions for example.
@mtomczak @caseynewton I think what you are saying is because Mastodon is federated (through the Activity Pub protocol), it allows each instance admin to control moderation. These could be rules of the city, which is more localized. They could be per individual. The point is, it's not up to 3 people I will never meet in a conference room drinking $7 lattes and deciding who to kick on or off.