ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

@jeffjarvis Tried to make the positive case for everyone to consider moving, here:

https://mastodon.online/@protecttruth/109416839397830094

"Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to one senior industry figure, leading others to instead reduce their spend to the bare minimum required so as to avoid further confrontation"

https://archive.ph/ziimf

5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/54-million-twitter-users-stolen-data-leaked-online-more-shared-privately/

#Security

#ReasonMagazine’s guide to #Mastodon

https://reason.com/2022/11/25/mystified-by-mastodon-were-here-to-help/

@enbrown #twitter #fediverse #socialmedia #decentralization

The arguments for remaining on twitter to “fight” remind me of the gambling adage that the house always wins. “Fighting” there is like gambling and thinking you’ll eventually beat the house. But even if you win $10,000 at the slot machine it’s because it’s in the casino’s bigger interests to give you $10,000.

A viral post from a progressive helps prop up an increasingly reactionary company. @jeffjarvis

@Jelaniya @jeffjarvis I agree. It's a lost cause under the current management and policies, and the house always wins. Twitter isn't a country we can defend by repelling invaders. It's, ultimately, just a web site owned by an increasingly hostile billionaire. The only way to win is to move elsewhere.

I still visit, but just to find friends to tell them where I've moved.

Go home, error code message, you are drunk.🤣

Funny how if billionaires leave b/c Govt raises billionaire taxes, it’s Govt’s fault—but as teachers leave because Govt won’t raise teacher salaries, it’s the teachers fault.🤔

Protecting billionaires & exploiting teachers in poverty is class warfare against working people.

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

Mastodon is like TikTok, except for people who are overwhelmed by videos of extroverts, have paranoid theories about algorithmic soul manipulation, and/or do social media exclusively while trying to put kids to sleep.

After 5 years enjoying a quieter version of this thing, it is a thing of beauty to behold it really starting to come to life.

Reportedly the personal data (name and phone number) of over 262 milion #WhatsApp users (1/8th of the userbase) has been leaked and is being sold online

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LCbq47O7zsc

#security #privacy #dataLeak #xp

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

The most important thing thing about the #fediverse is it finally brings web sites, social media, content sharing ,politics, creativity and authorship as together as they've ever been. It can and should give rise to a true laboratory and proving grounds for exploring and refining global cultural communications in every respect, and in every field. If we don't take advantage of this Renaissance moment, we may miss the greatest opportunity to matter that our generation will ever have.

Huh, http://post.news founder who knew nothing about social media, suddenly discovers that moderation isn’t just a word that starts with “m.” If they’re already struggling with < 50,000, what’s 5 million users gonna look like?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

Does blasphemy offend you?

Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?

It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312