@hee_nalu @GossiTheDog well, he also eliminated a lot of their corporate credit cards.. so yeah, we'll see. ๐
@hee_nalu @GossiTheDog their domain name expires before then, hopefully Elmo didn't sack all the people with the know-how on how to renew their domain name...
@Ibleedblue @flexghost @jeff there's more actual evidence of right wing people pleading guilty to committing election fraud. Once again, it's projection from their side to ours.
The #Schrรถdinger's cat now becomes the "Schrรถdinger's plates": as you can see, they are both broken and not broken until you open the door ๐
@chandima Favorite can be used like that, but you can also review your favorites. So you could use it like that, like a private tip jar to the author to let them know you liked the toot, or you could use it like Internet Explorer used favorites, like bookmarks. We don't have to all use it the same way. However, do keep in mind that Favoriting is a much more private affair than it was on Twitter. Only you and the author see it.
@tuckerteague it would be best to use it like a web browser bookmark. Because you can go back and look at your favorites. Yes, the author will see that you favorited it. But we won't see on a timeline how many people favorited it. If your intent was simply more exposure for the toot, it's best to reply to it, with relevant hashtags, it'll help Federate it better. #HowtoMastodon #makingfriends #TwitterMigration
@mjgardner I literally just read an article today about how DMs at Twitter were not encrypted, either. Even if you delete them, there isn't a guarantee it's deleted until the other party ALSO deletes the message. So, with way less staff on the Twitter payroll, there's way less check and balances over there to see that Elmo isn't abusing that ability.
Elon Musk says he'll make his own phone if Google and Apple de-platform him: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-alternative-phone-apple-google-ban-twitter-1849822836
I'd LOVE to see him try. (iOS has been developing since 2005-ish, and Android for even longer; the only way he'll get a software stack is to use Android as a platform or buy in a cheap also-ran from China. Either path is a quick way to lose a few billion dollars more without shipping a useable product. A dozen billion here, a dozen billion there, pretty soon it's all gone ...)
Elon's take over of Twitter will change the behavior of the digital world. ๐ฅ
Flickr and Tumblr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will connect to the #Fediverse.
Everywhere you look, people are being laid off, but #Mastodon is growing. ๐
The world finally understands that social media can not only be fun, but also have the privacy of the user in mind. ๐ค
We don't need billionaires to create a good world. โค๏ธ
I agree with this 100%
There is no "stay and fight" on Twitter. If you're there, you're grumbling under your breath at a Nazi rally and calling it "resistance"
Hi! I'm Cosmo. ๐๐๐ช๐ซโญ๐ Thanks to my #GeekDad, I've been a #computer and #electronics enthusiast all my life, I am following in his footsteps. My first computer was an Apple ][+. I miss the days of calling BBS's and chatting on D-Dial. I used to run a #WWIV board in the early 90's called Mission Control in the #Philadelphia area. Here are hashtags I'd love to follow:
๐ #BlueWave #FBR #FBPE #FBPEU #Liberal #BLM #FireCorruptPower ๐ฎ#ProChoice โ๏ธ #BlueCrew #BlueWave2024 #HumanRights #ImmigrantsArePeopleToo #LGTBQally ๐งฌ #Science #NASA #DontPanic #ฮฉ #Philly #DogsOfMastodon #Beagle #Bulldog #GuineaPig #Cavy #Science #SciFi #ScienceFiction #DoctorWho #StarTrek #StarWars #แฐ #Stargate #BattlestarGalactica #MrRobot #2001 #GOT #HOTD #AutismDad #VideoGamer #railroads #muppets
For your first day on Mastodon, just a few humbly suggested steps! Welcome to the party!
1) Consider if you're on the server for you, your hobbies, and your moderation desires. You can always migrate your account, later. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
2) Make a profile! These can be longer than Twitter ones - and you can format them with line breaks, italics (using asterix), and loads of emoji. Check the emoji on your server, here! https://emojos.in/
3) If you liked who you followed on Twitter, use https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ and/or https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to create a csv of all the people you followed there to upload into Mastodon, using the web menu option Preferences > Import. Now you are following the same folks!
4) Using https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/, you can also export your Twitter blocklist, and import it using the same function in Mastodon.
5) Create an introduction post! Use lots of hashtags to help people find you and your interests, as there's no algorithm or string search function here. Make sure to add the hashtag introduction!
6) Get used to using hashtags in your posts regularly, so that people can find them manually or using the hashtag following function, or the rss feed function.
7) Use CWs liberally, to help people decide what to see. Follow your server's guidelines, but definitely CW those movie spoilers!
8) Use alt text in your images whenever possible, to help people with screen readers enjoy it here, too!
9) Enjoy your new community, and have a lot of fun!
Itโs #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that itโs possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, theyโll migrate over!
We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.
-Delenn, "Babylon 5"
๐ #BlueWave #FBR #FBPE #FBPEU #Liberal #BLM #FireCorruptPower ๐ฎ#ProChoice โ๏ธ #BlueCrew #BlueWave2024 #HumanRights #ImmigrantsArePeopleToo #LGTBQally ๐งฌ #Science #NASA #H2G2 #DontPanic #ฮฉ #Philadelphia #Philly #DogsOfMastodon #Beagle #Bulldog #GuineaPig #Cavy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #DoctorWho #StarTrek #StarWars #แฐ #Stargate #BattlestarGalactica #MrRobot #2001 #Babylon5 #GOT #HOTD #AutismDad #VideoGamer #railroads #muppets #videogames #Destiny2 #NoMansSky