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Amazing. When I checked this story (about #Musk getting #booed on stage at a #Chappelle gig) a couple of hours ago it had 3 embedded #Twitter videos of the booing on it. Since then Musk has had all 3 removed and had the account that posted them deleted —not suspended, deleted—completely.

There's no longer any pretence of it being a free, pluralistic platform.
gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-st

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@gft77 @therobburgessshow Yes, and he was ultimately killed by religious conservatives. Hmm.

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Before 2020, Brooklyn experienced its previous peak population in 1950. Yet we did not have a housing crisis in 1950. Why not? Because housing was built to shelter people and not money. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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@mayaisloading I've had the best luck addressing them to Satan.

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@cobalt I should add that when I started on Masto four years ago, the lack of a quote tweet function seemed like an oversight. Now I don't miss it at all.

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@cobalt Only the original poster can see how many likes their post got. Nobody else can. This cuts down on the bandwagon effect. "Oooh, lots of people liked this so I should like it too."

Again, all of these differences are about adding friction to the process of something going viral. The quote tweet phenomenon was discovered by Twitter itself so the feature is omitted from Mastodon because it encourages viral behavior.

The only way something can go viral is if people boost a post as-is, without adding their two-cents. ;-)

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BakersRelay

FROM WLOS 13 ASHEVILLE NC - A rockslide on a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia has caused significant damage to the road, park rangers say. #ncwx
wlos.com/news/local/rockslide-

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@cobalt Yep, that's as close as you can get to it. As you probably know, the culture and design of Mastodon is different. A quote tweet function is intentionally absent. Research on Twitter shows that the quote tweet function is the single biggest factor in stirring up "tempests in a teapot".

Mastodon is set up to add friction to topics going viral This doesn't mean they can't go viral. They can and I've seen it. Quote tweets are at the root of many of Twitter's silly tempests in a teapot.

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@futurebird It is an amazing thing to someone like me who began with computers in 1968 that there are Raspberry Pi 3Bs monitoring the temperature of a freezer.

I could gin up a little code for a Raspi that would run 4,000 instances of the machine I began on, at full speed, and still have plenty of leftover power. Hahahaha.

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Leaving twitter; harassment of public health officials 

Today was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

This morning Elon Musk tweeted that his pronouns were prosecute/Fauci.

You can’t study evolutionary biology under the roof of the Discovery Institute and you can’t have meaningful and productive scientific collaboration on a platform run by right-wing troll who denies science when its results are inconvenient to him and just simply to hear his audience cheer.

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@lindasgoluppiart He's sounded unhinged for years because he is.

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mau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels

rt @officejjsmart UPRISING BREWING IN CHECHNYA

Locals got into a fight with a traffic cop. Onlookers watched and didn’t help the cop.

Grand sadist Kadyrov🇷🇺 is now rounding up supposed onlookers, and as punishment, shipping them off to Ukraine🇺🇦.

Now fights against authorities are spreading.

#Russia #Chechnya #Ukraine #War #News

twitter.com/officejjsmart/stat

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smells of bikes

The German bakery said they couldn't sell me any fruitcake as it was all stollen.

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@cra1g Driven with the headlights off at night on a deserted highway.

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@cra1g So you've done that too. I used to do it to scare my kids.

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@mustapipa Yes it does.

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Ask Aubry 🦝

Lord of the Rings healthy masculinity

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@ParanoidFactoid Post size is an admin option on each server. Some are 500 chars but I've seen 1k and 2k. My instance is set to 65k which is one reason I moved to it.

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@SusanHR @TruthSandwich @pilotmike @wiseguyeddie

"All the Berners I know held their noses and voted for Hilary." And there's the problem. They loudly declared that Hillary was corrupt, untrustworthy, corporatist, neoliberal, etc. & made it sound like they were having to vote for someone EVIL. Hence self-pitying claims of nose holding. This is the purity pony BS that is always trotted out. In truth, it's just their bad political judgment.

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@jmcrookston You can't defeat the #disinformation by staying. Leaving means less ad revenue for the company. #TwitterMigration

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