Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

Musk on advertising

The grapevine is lit today. Rumors flying from ex-Twitter employees that people are reacting to with "Oh my god, it really is just going to stop working."

I will give big points to the first news organization, big or small, that:
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.

Hello! I'm new to mastodon so I'll do an #introduction!

I'm a scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, and I work with satellite data to #research weather and climate. In particular, I look at severe weather such as #storms and volcanic #eruptions.

I also try to share lots of lovely images of our planet from space!

The man's mad! We've got #FollowBackFriday, Musk's now created Freedom Friday where he's unleashing all the previously banned far right, fascist loons on us! 😡

If you see someone you like post something you like and they are not in your server then consider boosting them so others see.

Mike Pence is an example of toxic Christianity. We should have freedom of religion, yes, but we must also ensure freedom *from* religion. Your religious freedoms don’t give you the right to deny freedoms or civic participation to others. Period.

Here from the #TwitterMigration. I'm a scientist and academic administrator based in Camden, NJ at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Six years ago this tweet went viral & became an international news story, taking our campaign to a whole new level.

But #StopFundingHate was never about a single platform.

At its core, #StopFundingHate is about an idea: If enough of us speak out & urge advertisers to stop supporting hate & division, then this could be the key to building a fairer & more honest media: https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/03/13/thelongterm/

Just added “” to my Mastodon profile. In case you’re curious, this is the new cool way to show you’re a donor for this Mastodon instance ◡̈ folks are putting it in their name or bio. Not required or anything, just feel free to add it if you’re a donor and that feels right to you!

An end of day break in the rain meant I caught some interesting light and a rainbow. #kernow #wetandwindy