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Clive Thompson

Watching Musk flail around, alternately threatening/alienating advertisers while threatening/alienating long-time users of Twitter ...

.. I'm thinking of an essay I wrote last week about how Musk is remarkably unsuited to manage something like Twitter ...

... because it's a social system, and thus way more complex than the physics systems (orbital space, cars) his companies have worked to master

Or as I put it ...

"Running Twitter Isn't Rocket Science: It's Harder" -- clivethompson.medium.com/runni

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@ambihelical too bad. I was excited there for a second. would be good if they fix this.

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@ambihelical hmm. seems very glitchy

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whoa, I just learned that I can use LaTeX in posts. thank you @ambihelical for the link with all the extra features of qoto.
To test that, here is something I encountered once in a calculus class

\[
\frac{\sin x}{n}=6
\]

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@ambihelical got it thanks!

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@pth what do you mean? I have a quote button and I just quoted your post as a test. seems to work. but people in replies are saying it's not a thing. confused.
qoto.org/@herid/10929990708819

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wait, what? they aren't? I see a quote button and I am using it now on this post. confused.

Paul Haddad (old)  
Are quote posts not a thing?
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Great article on content moderation. It's about twitter but mastodon will have to deal with all of this too if it keeps growing.
techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-el

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Bill Comeau

RT @ChandraPasma@twitter.com

A massive 71% of Ontarians believe the government is taking the wrong approach and should get back to the negotiating table.

The people are making their voices clear about what must be done.

Can you hear them @fordnation@twitter.com? Get back to the table.

#onted
globalnews.ca/news/9256193/mos

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@Pwnallthethings half?! I guess that must really depend on the community. among the people I follow on twitter maybe 2-3% are on mastodon.

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@arinbasu yes, I know about this option but I was wondering if this is possible by default. Sounds like it isn't.

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Cornelius Roemer

Woah - German government has got its own Mastodon instance and most of the ministries and many agencies already have accounts.
Verification problem at least partially solved - just need to check the domain is right!
I've also seen newspapers like theatlantic.com set up instances themselves. Looks like verification will be worked out sooner or later.
social.bund.de/explore

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Is there a way on to make my replies to other ppl's threads unlisted by default?

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@lawprofblawg lol, this is a great way to improve morale among your employees and generate good will toward new management.

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Carl T. Bergstrom

A number of people have asked what I could have done better. In particular, I should have set the first post in the thread to public and the rest of the posts as unlisted.

Here's a fantastic explainer from @djnavarro via @flodebarre:
blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-

(It's worth reading the entire thing. I learned a ton.)

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@ct_bergstrom @djnavarro @flodebarre thanks a lot for this post. that link was hugely helpful.

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@rasmusdotse @rakyll
thanks! that did the trick.

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@rasmusdotse @rakyll
I am using mastodon in a browser right now. interface doesn't look at all like in the above screenshot.

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@rakyll this is mastodon in a web browser? Please elaborate, how does one get this view?

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Katherine Hawkins

I think part of the appeal of the growing migration to mastodon is that we can look at Musk’s nonsense and collectively tell the richest man in the world: UNSUBSCRIBE. It’s downright empowering. (Alas not an option for Sam Alito, Trump, McConnell, Miller,, et al.)

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