Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@social.cleverlibre.org

Remember the sound of an old slide projector? A chewing gum machine? A coffee mill?

#ConserveTheSound puts together a virtual audio #museum of (almost) lost everyday #sound:

https://www.conservethesound.de/category/sound

Looks like the WSJ is going all in on moving to Mastodon, with this little tutorial available without a paywall.
https://www.wsj.com/story/how-to-use-mastodon-the-social-media-platform-blocked-by-elon-musks-twitter-7751455f

For those of us who won't be able to make it to Washington DC tomorrow, on behalf of Ukrainians and our billions of supporters, please give our president a hero's welcome, because that's what he deserves.

Slava Ukraini!

Life keeps trying to teach me lessons, like it doesn't know who it's dealing with.

Tbh #trans Twitter was fucking exhausting and once the algorithm got me nailed it was nearly impossible to get away from it. Kinda happy to be on a platform where I'm not watching members of my community continually eat each other alive over the same three or four tired topics.

Me: Alexa have you seen the rest of my acid?

Lava Lamp:

If Mastodon isn't quite scratching the same itch as Twitter for you, I suggest taking a moment to figure out if maybe Twitter was the reason you have the itch to begin with. And maybe it's time to stop being itchy.

In one week I have gone from "ugh Mastodon looks complicated and too technical" to "I want to become a tech reporter so I can write about this, also I kind of want to found an instance?"

Say what you will about Elon, he's getting women into STEM

8,691,843 accounts
+2,328 in the last hour
+72,194 in the last day
+301,624 in the last week

Stop hating on lazy people. We didn't even do anything.

Y'all are chasing working artists away from this place by harping on how "sad" and "pathetic" it is for them to hope for a large follower count here.

It's not about attention. It's about their bottom line. More followers means more commissions, more customers in their online shops, more direct exposure to people with hiring power. It's honestly really cruel to keep acting like they want adulation when really they just want to pay rent.

They have ample reason to mourn what they built.

While the model we released with GPT-2 (hosted on HF: https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/) has surprising accuracy, we're still playing catch-up with AI detection methods.

personally i'm delighted that "live-tooting" is catching on.

via @ahcastor and @davidgerard in their latest: https://amycastor.com/2022/12/18/crypto-collapse-binance-is-not-so-fine-ftx-delaware-vs-ftx-bahamas-celsius-voyager-gemini-tether/

I cannot repeat this enough right now.

Musk has given journalism, and the news business a once in a generation gift.

Don't squander it.

Take control and ownership of your audiences in a way that only federated social media like Mastodon affords.

Do the two-step:

Step 1: Get onto Mastodon.

Step 2: Launch your own server to go with your website.

#news
#journalism

ANNOUNCEMENT: We're in the process of mothballing our Twitter account, which was previously our most-used social media platform.

Please help us out by boosting our posts so that our followers can see our updates and to help us build our audience here!

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.

Main server has been upgraded ✅ It's the biggest one possible now and it seems to handle the load a bit better

Now finishing tuning and working away the background queue! We where 700K behind and now 200K remaining

Sorry for all trouble It was a huuuge extra server load from the past day

In 1976, THE POINTER SISTERS were asked to record "Pinball Number Count" for Sesame Street, which was a series of educational cartoons teaching kids how to count. It made its debut in 1977 and was a feature on the show for many years.

A BANGER 🔥🔥🔥

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

- Maya Angelou

LOL at the big philanthropies still on Twitter saying they're in 'wait & see' mode.

WHAT are they waiting to see that they haven't seen?
Are they waiting for an improvement? Not likely.
Are they waiting for fewer Nazis? Nope.

They're waiting for OTHER billionaires, govt & media to move off Twitter.

That's what they're waiting for.

#Philanthropy
#nonprofit #Comms4Good
#TwitterMigration