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26 Nov 2022
You're telling me the South African emerald heir is tweeting out nazi dogwhistles? It's going to be mask-off within two weeks.
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25 Nov 2022
My relay from Mastodon has broken and Musk has released every awful person from their ban, so: I'm gone, and there will be no more cross posting. Find me on @seldo@mastodon.social .
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19 Nov 2022
Okay. I put a page up on my website where you can give me your email. I will only ever use this mailing list to invite you to wherever I might land on social media.
marcorogers.com/where-to-fin…
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18 Nov 2022
Just a reminder that I'm also @aeflash@icosahedron.website . The quality/quantity of my posts/boosts is much higher there than here.
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11 Nov 2022
Need a place to go? Reddit is a community of communities. Whether you come for the cats or the conversation, we're sure you'll find your people.
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11 Nov 2022
We regret to inform you that we will not be giving away insulin, a publicly funded invention that was given away by its creator to be given away to people so they don’t die.
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7 Nov 2022
Also, some of you don't want to admit that you won't leave twitter because you're afraid of only getting a handful of interactions per post vs. dozens.
I guarantee the quality of your interactions will be higher quality on Mastodon.
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7 Nov 2022
Just a reminder that I'm aeflash@icosahedron.website . I'm going to be more intentional about posting tech stuff there, moreso than I ever was here.
Alex Early retweeted
4 Nov 2022
day 1: take over company
day 2: fire everyone whose job is to point out when ideas are bad
day 3-6: put out as many bad ideas as possible, like a bad idea machine gun
day 7: oh no where did the money go
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
Community note
Multiple advertisers have confirmed they are pausing spending while they see what direction Elon Musk takes with the platform.
"The growing exodus of advertisers comes amid concerns Musk will scale back misinformation and security protections on the platform."
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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Alex Early retweeted
3 Nov 2022
So, code freezes are not strictly risk mitigation: they are a _sacrifice decision_. They trade (ie, sacrifice) increased risk at a less important time for reduced risk at a more important time.
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Alex Early retweeted
31 Oct 2022
So why is Mastodon not a single website: Because if it was, it would be doomed to recreate all that you hate about the social media platforms you're trying to leave. Decentralizing the platform, building it on top of a protocol, is how it breaks the cycle.
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Alex Early retweeted
31 Oct 2022
A single website has your data locked in, and if successful, has such strong network effects that it can get away with making the service so much worse without having to fear anyone leaving. And if it shuts down, it's game over. Your posts and connections gone.
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31 Oct 2022
Monetization usually means ads, changing the website to have people see more ads, invading people's privacy to make sure they've seen ads... A single website also means one organization is in complete control. If they do what you don't want them to do, you're out of luck.
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Alex Early retweeted
31 Oct 2022
Some people ask us why Mastodon isn't a single website. A single website that can serve the whole world requires so much computing power, infrastructure, and engineering, that it is practically impossible to do without big capital and monetization.
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Alex Early retweeted
26 Oct 2022
The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.
Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.
US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.
A THREAD
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Alex Early retweeted
26 Oct 2022
You can now build slow websites way faster. Wow.
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