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@mastodonusercount @sibbo no they are actually users, Twitter closed their offices because a majority of employees did not accept @melontusk terms to work.

via Zoë Schiffer, Platformer

NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.

We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.

#News #Twitter #TwitterMigration #Musk

The only parallel I've ever seen to Twitter's current self-destruction was the Digg 4.0 fiasco.

At one time Digg had ~450 million users. Then they tried to push an extremely unpopular update that caused users to leave en masse.

Where did they go? Reddit.

And now Reddit is one of the biggest social media sites on the planet.

By the way, a whole lot of Internet users have forgotten about Digg -- or don't even know it existed.

Twitter could be Digg but on a much larger scale.

Dear #mastodon fans and admins: let’s be welcoming to all those coming from #twitter . If we become gatekeepers that eschew all the “normies” the vision of a federated self governed social network can’t take off. Help onboard them. Be nice. Be friendly. To the #twitterexodus folks landing here, welcome! Consider donating to your server admin for hosting costs — it’s not cheap — and seek to learn how the admins keep the nodes up and running but also a fun safe place to be.

Interesting piece by @mathewi about the culture clash between journalists accustomed to Twitter & existing Mastodon instances. He reports about 45 servers are blocking people on journa.host, which I was seriously considering joining or shifting towards: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php What do you think? How should members of the media be approaching participating or reporting on the #fediverse?

Is there a weather Mastodon? I am obsessed with weather and will miss the immediacy of being able to check stuff on Twitter. What are you guys suggest? By the way, the two other channels on cable are truly a joke. One of them was founded by being capital and the other one is owned by Byron Allen and they have absolutely no interest in ever knowledge in climate change. it’s weird. #Weather #Storm #Thunderstorm #Noreaster #hurricane #wildfire #flood #mudslide

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
― Noam Chomsky

Meanwhile on Fox this morning, what is the Friends' angle on the FTX collapse? Of course, SBF's donations to Dems. He's second only to Soros! they exclaimed.

It's going so well.

SpaceX Employees Say They Were Fired for Speaking Up About Elon Musk https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/business/spacex-workers-elon-musk.html?smid=tw-share

Mike Pence is an example of toxic Christianity. We should have freedom of religion, yes, but we must also ensure freedom *from* religion. Your religious freedoms don’t give you the right to deny freedoms or civic participation to others. Period.

Yes! "The Morrison government sat on a Privacy Act review for two years. Now is the time for action. The Medibank, Optus and NDIA mass data breaches demand urgent rights-based change which could be summarised in a five-point plan, including an individual right" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/17/australian-companies-dont-value-keeping-our-data-safe-because-they-have-little-to-lose-our-laws-need-to-change-that?CMP=share_btn_tw

> The first few years of the acquisition were about putting out the fires, cleaning up spam, hate, etc, getting a good technical infrastructure in place, and we integrated the culture and verve of Tumblr in Automattic really well.

> Now we're more in fun mode. Should we switch the backend to @WordPress? Join the fediverse? Support @matrixdotorg / @bluesky ? We 100% want as much of Tumblr to be open source as possible.

@mwlucas

um...
" to use any of the applications that required access to the internet, like email, you had to plug the Cybiko into the USB port of your computer."

Most. Devastating. XKCD. EVER.

EVER.

https://xkcd.com/2699/