Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

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

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…

Mastodon will update to 4.0 soon! Here are the most exciting new features (in addition to fixes & changes):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to filter by language
- ability to translate posts
- ability to post HEIC files (i.e. your iPhone’s native photo format)
- define user roles (big deal for admins)
- define sign-up process on your Instance (admins again)

See all changes here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Thanks, @Gargron and @Mastodon Team. #Mastodon4

Elon Musk achieved the impossible: he encouraged competition in microblogging when none existed! Of course that wasn’t his intention but I personally will take competition any way it comes!

✨ The first release candidate of Mastodon 4.0 is now officially available for testing! Find out what's new on the changelog:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

To Twitter migrants complaining about learning how to use the Fediverse—do you forget what it was like to first join Twitter?

Questions that arose back in 2008:

1. What can I possibly say in 140 characters?
2. What is a hashtag, and why does it even exist?
3. How does anyone find anything?
4. Who do I follow?
5. What's a feed?

Twitter came with a learning curve.

Why should #developers be interested in the #Fediverse? I spoke to @darius, who (y'all probably know!) runs a Mastodon instance called Friend Camp, about why developers should experiment with open protocols like ActivityPub & how becoming a hosting provider is a way in. https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/

How to verify your account to an existing website, and it not cost even $8 bucks a month.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108245858984927046

The @eff's Cory Doctorow has prepared some excellent examples for how #interoperability between social media platforms could look like in practice. #UX #UI

Full report here: https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook

It's the weekend, baby
#startrek

The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.

Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.

We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.