ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

@mehdihasan So many dog rescue groups on there too..I've literally seen dogs rescued right before my eyes on Twitter. Sad that is going to go away 😭

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

Twitter is now an insecure platform, haemmorhaging security experts. It could haemmorhage your DMs, through leak or sale.
It's no hard guarantee, but your best chance to delete them is with is with #GDPR rights. I've written a blog on how:
https://michae.lv/deleting-dms-from-twitter/

Thinking I might curate my experience on mastodon much more tightly so that it can be something that's a positive in my life rather than it making me angry all the time like twitter

But, if we don’t have Twitter, how will we know what to be angry about each day???

For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm

Oh, Lord, Amy Klobuchar is on
Morning Joe and they predictably go after 230. NO! Thousands of site hosts on Mastodon, et al need its protections. Social media will not be about some big, evil company but about thousands of volunteers and their risk and liability.

"That approach: build protocols, not platforms." @mmasnick

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Maybe don't let billionaires be in charge of stuff.

Maybe don't let there be billionaires.

Folks. No matter what instance you are on your admins and Moderators are simply trying to keep up with all the refugees from Twitter.

Mastodon is a pretty friendly place. If you see someone with a question on your local timeline and know the answer please jump in and help.

Hello new #API developers who've come here from Twitter.
I've written some guides to help you get started with the #MastdonAPI

Includes how to build #bots, grab conversations, and use search effectively.

Read them at: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/mastodon/

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

✨ The future is federated

Imagine being able to follow Twitter accounts from your Instagram account

With Mastodon & Pixelfed you can!

▶️ https://pixelfed.org

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.

Here's a comment for incoming Twitter users: I've found that some are really put off by the way Mastodon requires push and pull to get to information. Rather than Elmo telling you what to read (and steering you to most incendiary content), you have to go look for it and choose to consume it. Most notably, I've come to think of "Content Warnings" as instead subject lines, just like you'd use in an email, so readers can scan whether they want to read further.

@jonn_blanchard @jhamby it's shocking the mental gymnastics they play

Holy crap, there are still people over on the birdsite that think this is part of some master plan and not absolute proof that Musk couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag.

Honestly, it would be pretty tragic if Ye Birdsite were to implode. I feel like all my "big" connections have migrated over here anyway, but there are a few people I'm gonna miss seeing.

Quite a few of them have newsletters. Which I actually don't mind - data ownership and all that. Web 1.0's coming back!

Hey friends. With the ship sinking over on the bird app. I'm really anxious about my upcoming crowdfunding campaign for my next comic book. I was really reliant on twitter for networking and promo so I'm not sure what to do now...
I'd appreciate if you gave the campaign a looksie or maybe a follow https://zoop.gg/c/objectsinthemirror