Adam @adam@librem.one

@thelinuxEXP
It turns out that his employees at SpaceX were "managing" him and preventing his dumber ideas from being implemented.

I think what we're seeing at Twitter is what happens when he doesn't have employees managing him.

✨ Community CDN

An opt-in service to offload remote/federated media hosting to a trusted community CDN operated by us.

You'll still have to store local media, but instead of storing remote/federated media, you can use the CDN to keep your hosting costs down.

Shipping to select instances next month, and available to all next year! #pixelfed #communityCDN

Now that we're starting to see more impersonation accounts on Mastodon, a reminder that verified websites are a thing. It's not perfect, but implementable at the individual level, and this is how we know for example which of these is the real @stephenfry - and it's not the one with the meaningless checkmark. :)

Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

Over on Twitter it’s like the Penguin is in charge of Gotham.

The guy who promised Twitter will be the most reliable source of information and not tolerate false information…is currently leading the way on tweeting unreliable and false information.

really can't stand the slowness of UI transitions on many iOS and Material (Android) apps. Don't waste my time, just show me the next screen.

Google maps and Spotify among the worst culprits.

I'm standing in the rain looking for a next replacement bus. Do I really want to watch your UI transitions?

congrats to @conservancy for doing the right thing and standing up a dedicated instance for their organization

They ported PostmarketOS to the nokia 8110 4G... it looks so derpy running XFCE. I guess I found another project

Just discovered #ThickTrunkTuesday on Mastodon, and it’s joyful and wholesome.

Ask your public library if they have any workshops/trainings on Mastodon. They probably don't, and probably should. If you feel comfortable, offer to teach such a workshop. It's one way of thanking all the hard working administrators in the Fediverse.

One of the things that's made it easy to find communities whose discussion I want to see is the linear feed. This is a stark contrast to new social apps I've tried, e.g., Clubhouse, where my feed is dominated by high engagement stuff I don't want.

I understand why companies push that stuff; looking at Twitter's experiments, you get more growth/$ when you switch users who've chosen linear timeline back to ranked timeline.

Fundamentally, this is why most apps don't even offer linear timeline.

I see that #Hive is trending so I tried it and so far it's quite unfinished and suspicious.
- There's no web version (a big no for me)
- The app forbids to use or post media unless you give access to ALL your media on iOS. This is a HUGE red flag to me.

(on iOS, when an app asks for a media, you can give it only a selection of media to avoid hack/download of all your media library (you now, privacy etc). Hive doesn't accept that and asks for all access)

Also no 2FA, no DPO (so not GDPR compliant for privacy)...

Just for you to know.

Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird.rss"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource.rss"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!

It is profoundly intellectually lazy and offensive to the soul to think that the sum total of human expression could ever be mediated by any single entity.

I built the foundations of Twitter with my bare hands and watched in awe and sadness as it grew into a cynical temple of ego.

I delight in its destruction. We're better off here.

Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome