Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

Wondering how temperature has changed in your city/state/country?

Head to Show Your Stripes and make your own personalized #climatechange graphic!

https://showyourstripes.info/c/globe

Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.

Hey all - here's a quick timeline about how this TikTok spying stuff all went down:

In March, I broke the story that TikTok was working on Project Texas, a companywide effort to separate out US user data and limit China-based employees’ access to it.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-project-texas-bytedance-user-data

Introducing FREEBIRD TRENDS!

Currently, Mastodon only shows trending hashtags from the past 24-48 hours.
Which is good, but does not allow users to discovery and talk about the most latest trends.

Freebird Trends is a simple web application that shows 1H, 12H and 24H trending hashtags for Mastodon!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

You can view the web app at https://freebird.network

Please share suggestions/bugs! Always looking to improve this service in any way possible! 🐦

What they're less good at is tolerating situations where a mystery remains unresolved. For instance in this story two girls go in search of adventure, and end up finding *something* making noises in a graveyard. The story never tells us what. The point is the relationship between the girls. But #ChatGPT is extremely determined to Scooby-Doo it and reveal that the noise was just a bat, or just a homeless man, etc.

There's always a tweet.

“When we really think about what these suits are about, it’s fear.” #RICO https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/corporate-rico-environmental-advocate/

Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but need 3-4 hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. #fedihire #ruby #rails #job

1. Your personal site (e.g. stephenfry.com)

2. A page on your org's site (e.g. example.org/who-we-are)

3. A verification service (but prob a bad idea, as explained here: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/)

4. Your org running its own instance and using that. i.e. this by Dan Hon: https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/

For the journalist migration, most people are pitching option 4, but I've seen some ppl say journalists might not want to use their org's instance, even if one got set up?

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration