Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Is Mastodon really that hard for non-technical people to figure out or do people just dislike having to learn new things? Is it really that confusing that there's no single "mastodon.com" website? It seems to me that people don't want to invest 10 minutes into actually reading up on what federated social media is all about.

#meta #mastodon #RIPTwitter

I joined this site a fortnight ago today.

I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.

Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.

We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.

And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.

It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.

We just got used to it.

And now we are out.

I'm growing increasingly concerned that people are jumping from #RIPTwitter to yet another “#twitter” in the #TwitterMigration - and, down the line, they'll end up in the same place they are now. Lesson not learned. And they see no other way.

We've been trained to believe that the only way to connect with others is through somebody else's vision of what #SocialMedia and #Community are.

Streamed my thoughts live, earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166UPX238W8 - does #LockerGnome come back in the #fediverse?

My #videogames intro

Ms. Pac-man
Donkey Kong
Shining Force
World of Warcraft
Breath of the Wild

#gaming

Do y'all know of any instances that'd be good for PoC writers?

I'm thinking scholar.social or perhaps writing.exchange?

#FediHelp #FediSearch

(feel free to boost)

Hello UK! I’m tired but excited to get ready for my London stage debut in Allegiance, which is based on my real life story and experience in U.S. internment camps during World War II. #NeverForget

I have questions. Seems like we're about to fight for the soul of community, again. Those of us who are old enough to remember the beforetimes (pre #SocialMedia), this 'post dot news' idea sounds grand, but is it more of the same? A new algorithm rises? Algorithms are anathema to #community. Eventually sold? I'll reserve judgement, but... am I missing something, here? Apart from ceding control ONCE AGAIN? Where do creators go? So many have bridled at #Mastodon already.

Every time I see 20+ users sign up in a matter of a few minutes I instantly think "What dumbass shit did Musk do now..."

#twitter

Accurate text generation within images is a pretty big deal for #AIArt.

I wonder if Stable Diffusion or DALL-E will be able to catch up?

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud

Link: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663191

always wanted to eat salad as a kid, but mom wouldn't lettuce #dadjokes

Dear Space Karen,
No thanks.

@kathygriffin Haha! Yeah, the Fediverse here is so much better, right?