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

That's it, the Twitter account is gone. I couldn't keep a clear conscience and stay there, even with it not being my main account. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can ignore Musk's actions but the way he's treated people who worked for him and the kind of people he's replatforming - I can't.

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

7,185,878 accounts
+4,399 in the last hour
+173,665 in the last day
+571,560 in the last week

Much like cars over the decades, watches have generally become larger and chunkier too.

#Casio’s first Databank Calculator watch, the DBC 600 released in 1985 and Casio’s (to date) last Databank Calculator watch, the DBC-32D, released in 2004.

#VintageWatch #Design #VintageTech

Thanks to Elon’s obsession with retaining employees who contributed the most lines of code, I keep getting reminded of a classic Hindi play from 1881, Bharatendu Harishchandra’s Andher Nagari.

Andher Nagari (darkness / ignorance city) is ruled by Chaupat Raja (literally, useless king), who ordered that vegetables and sweets would both cost a taka a ser (or a penny a pound) in his kingdom.

A fat monk sees this and decides to stay in the city, stuffing himself with expensive sweets sold at a penny a pound, though his guru warns him to move on, it is dangerous to stay in a place ruled by such a king.

The final act is that when a wall collapses and kills someone’s ass, the king orders the house owner to hang. He blames the builder who built the wall. The builder blames the bricklayer, who blames the guy that poured too much water into the cement. When the water guy is brought in for hanging, he says he was distracted by the police chief who was marching his men down the road. So the police chief is sentenced to hang.

Problem is he’s skinny and thanks to the king all the ropes are tied in the same standard noose size, too large for the man’s neck. So the king orders them to hang the first fat man they see, and that is the fat monk, who is rudely shaken out of his sleep after a big lunch.

As the monk is about to hang, his guru arrives and begs the king to hang him instead, because, he claims, whoever hangs in the city on that day would be reborn as its next king.

The king believes the guru and .. sentences himself to death.

@gpowerf Love that little PC Engine you have there! I've just got hold of a tiny Retroflag/RetroPi SNES, its definitely the cutest gaming device Ive ever owned (and it knows it!)

#Mastodon features that #Twitter doesn’t have:

* Temporary muting (e.g. for a day)
* Self-verified URLs in the profile
* Hiding spoilers etc. via content warnings
* URLs must start with protocols (fewer false positives, e.g. in code).
* Everyone can edit posts (in v4+).
* No ads (which doesn’t come for free = donate if you can afford it)

More obscure: I like that you can search for post URLs to “transfer” them between accounts.

I ran @coprolite9000's program and got this. See #bbcmicrobot hashtag for more.

Using this platform made me realise how I came to accept exposure to cruelty & hostility as part of the deal of being able to talk to you. The clicks algorithm is not necessarily our connection master. How refreshing to be reminded of that.

The good news: I finally found a cure for impostor syndrome

The bad news: it requires someone else to pay $44 billion and takes about 3 weeks

Everyone on twitter right now #twitter #tech #technology #twittermigration

Hi Mastodoning Mates. Any chance you could boost me a bit as I'm struggling to find folk I originally followed on the Twitter. Is that how this works? I'm ASD and find new systems like this and written-instructions a major headache and very confusing.

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