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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Go on twitter, great clown Elon Musk is destroying his reputation and all three of his businesses with increasing erratic behaviour and incompetence, the schadenfreude will cheer you up!’

‘But, Doctor…” says the man…

@jumile Hopefully an opportunity to reset the microblogging paradigm without the accumulated crud.

Oh my, the "☑️ Enable advanced web interface" option! 👌

@happysinger Personally, I found dumping Facebook to be one of the best things I ever did. The wife still uses it, and when I've looked at hers, its become even more of a toxic commercial shithole than I could have ever imagined.

@happysinger I felt that way about Tumblr too, until it turned into the current hellscape: I loved the idea of microblogging (and I kind of get some of that feeling back here) so I have some "hopes".

A 🧵 on what I want to call #CriticalMastodon. Just a personal view, but without the insight or dress sense of Jacob Bronowski.

@happysinger I will. I'm too full of chocolate to think properly just now.

@happysinger I guess he could be considered "fun" in the "rubbernecking a not-serious car crash where a mini ends up in a tree next to a bemused cat" kind of way. 🤷

@happysinger TBH you nailed it with the very first hashtag in the first toot, but I was too gorm- and coffee-less to parse it. 😴

I'm going to have to thank @happysinger for his enduring James Bond fixation for the inspiration.

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I think the James Bond films gave us unrealistic expectations as to exactly how nefarious evil billionaires could be.

"Do you expect me to die?"
"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to post 'parody' on your social media account!"

Look, does anyone remember Usenet?

You could run your own group. You could join any groups. It was up to your local Usenet admin which groups were carried at your site (usually a university or government domain) and how widely your local groups got promoted.

It was also up to you/your admin what you DIDN'T see in your usenet feed. Lots of sites didn't carry alt.sex.*, for example.

If your're old enough, "the fediverse" is kinda familiar.

@happysinger It also takes a critical mass and stable enough infrastructure, which it now seems to have. PubSubHubbub as-was just didn’t have that before.

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