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If you want to delete all your old Twitter DMs (which I think is a good idea even if Twitter might retain copies of them somewhere), and also your historical likes, RTs, and any tweets you don’t want to keep, I made a Twitter app for that.
It’s called Semiphemeral and it’s pretty easy to use. I posted instructions for how to do it https://twitter.com/semiphemeral/status/1591258781098594304?s=46&t=L4aWvmyNxEFRL6eULgeO-A

Twitter's current content moderation status....👇👇👇👇

And after a brief lecture about culture and all that, the executive tells me, "All right, I get your point -- but if this is what I can expect from the Fediverse, I just don't know what to *not* expect."

That, right there, tell you about how corporations and the Fediverse.

So my big autistic furry dev friend makes his presentation -- absolutely kills it. Pretty much rolls out a compelling case for his software.

But I'm looking at the executive, he's frozen in disbelief.

After the presentation is over, we make our goodbyes.

45 minutes later, I get a call from the executive. And he tells me, "It's cool. I like it. It does everything I need -- but the Fediverse now scares me."

"But you told me that you'd respect the culture," I said (Contd.)

Something that happened 2 weeks ago:

An executive I know wanted to specific Fediverse software for a corporate intranet. I happened to know the guy who made it.

So I said to him, "All right, if you go this way, you have to understand that the Fediverse has its own culture and you have to respect that."

He agreed -- so I set up a meeting.

Right when the meeting started, the dev -- who is a big autistic furry -- walked into the office in his fursuit, and made his presentation. (Contd.)

Precedents like the German government running a Mastodon server are important beyond the obvious reasons. They reinforce the urgency of serious public funding for open code.

If we treated open code as part of the essential infrastructure of the 21st century and funded it at billions of USD/EUR as opposed to tiny grants here and there, the "fediverse" model of interconnected, self-governing communities would become the norm, not the exception.

See also (but not only): https://publiccode.eu/

I'm happy to say that I've now onboarded another iOS developer for our app, and we are set on making another update to the app as soon as possible. I've also onboarded the first batch of new moderators for this server.

apparently you can edit toots now, though i don't understand the implications of that. anyway if you didn't see it the link is https://c.eev.ee/lexys-labyrinth/

In its way, this is the most important election story: All of the election-denying secretaries of state in swing states lost. That means an attempt to repeat Jan 6 and steal the 2024 election will be a lot more difficult https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada.html

The guy who runs Fedified obviously knows that account verification works on the Fediverse. See screenshot.

So why does he want Twitter-style Blue Checks?

Because he wants the class-based social status that birdsite formerly gave him!

The most important thing about Democrats maintaining control of the U.S. Senate is what it means for the federal courts: President Biden will have two years to appoint federal judges, including Supreme Court justices if any seats open up on the high court.

Anyone over the age of 40 remember how we were taught that we could do anything to change the world?

Now we seem to teach young people the futility of trying.

How do we turn that around?

Thought that I would introduce myself to #BlackMastodon 🙌🏾😁 I’m Nadine. #Writer. #Lawyer #Comic Book fanatic and a Londoner! South-East #London if I’m going to be specific 😏 here’s me at my desk, posing and not working 👩🏾‍💻 #crimewriter #blackwriters #nanowrimo

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

What's the best way of saving old Twitter threads?

I've got a few links saved that might become defunct relatively soon...

@atomicpoet Up until the current growth of the active userbase by 370% it was very much sustainable. I don't know why people seem to think that every active (or mind you, inactive, as some people think total user number somehow correlates to this) user breaks the rules on a daily basis. The 5-10 reports per day were very much handleable by even a single moderator. But now I am literally in the process of onboarding more moderators.

TL;DR - failed bcc to all laid off personnel results in reply-all hilarity.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1591152301817102336