Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

If you enjoy #mastodon you should know you can do the same with your chats. You don't need Google or Facebook.
Check @matrix for the details on federated chat!

RT @simongerman600
Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.

Twitter users with large follower counts rn

Friends, I'm begging you to wear masks, get vaccinated, and stay at home as much as possible. Do what you can to avoid COVID.

You do not want to become chronically ill; trust me on this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/10/covid-reinfection-complications/

Note: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JOURNALISTS / MEDIA to follow here on Mastodon, @tchambers is maintaining a spreadsheet of journalists who have shared their info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902

Currently over 770.

It's a good list of people!

Take away the 'p'

since a lot of folks are becoming newly interested in escaping corporate silos and moving to community-based services, are you aware of @matrix?

Matrix is to Slack and Discord, what Mastodon is to Twitter: a decentralized, federated network based on open standards/specs. It also supports full end-to-end encryption, just like Signal, so you can exchange messages privately!

If you find the fediverse interesting/inspiring, I recommend giving matrix a whirl. The quickest way to get started is to head over to https://app.element.io/ and make a (free!) account (although you can also join any number of other home servers, or host your own--they all talk to each other!).

If you _do_ end up checking it out, please do say hi! I'm @zkat:zkat.tech over there. I also manage a "space" (a group of channels, kinda like a Discord server) that you can join by clicking here: https://matrix.to/#/!tKdDSgQTxQzcOuTXqV:matrix.org?via=zkat.tech&via=matrix.org&via=envs.net

I hope this sparks your interest! I'd love to see you over there, too!

The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

Very good post “Twitter, When the Wall Came Down” by @bcantrill

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/

It's WAY worse than you already think it is on Twitter. Please read this thread. Be safe.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590746170438975488?s=20&t=I_d9Q7em6KleID8FqhPjhA

For years I had such a hard time explaining to *anyone* why this ActivityPub spec we were working so hard on mattered

When you think about it Elon paid 44 billion just to advertise the importance of the fediverse, gotta give that guy some credit, real generous of him

New to Mastodon and staring at an empty timeline? I've made ready-to-import follow lists based on a couple of opt-in public directory of semi-/self-vetted Mastodon users. They are #Fedified by @DataDrivenMD and #JournalistsonMastodon by @tchambers.

Just grab the CSV (imported text-only tables) files here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1knpxwT05WtBxs7a8aPnOUw_2WXyCyxFf?usp=share_link

Then, in your Mastondon instance, go to:
Settings > Import and Export > Import > Following List + Merge

And upload the CSV file(s). Voila, instant tootstream!

Initial impression of Mastodon…