mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

HOLA! We are looking for a Mastodon developer, preferably #indieweb aware (but not essential), to help evolve a new fork (already mounted) with a few tweaks for a very big community from the birdsite.

It's a nonprofit project, but it will soon have real resources after launch from several interested people and groups.

It's a very limited, single mission, paid gig (but not a big one… yet). We need to be up and running PDQ.

I'm sad that the birdsite is going darkside, I'd just managed to curate an amazing feed, full of amazing science and scientists.

Need to curate a similar vibe here.

Any suggestions for #deepsea, #marinebiology, #bird or #fish people to follow?

Said it on Twitter, might as well say it here, too:

What we got: Ten years of how to be a better tech manager

What we needed: Ten years of tech worker organizing

Here’s to the next ten years

RT @byroncclark@twitter.com

I feel like to many people don't recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you're part of the privileged group fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/byroncclark/status/1588310114020503553

#blackmastodon where are my black #twitter refugees 👀👀

“Whosoever pulleth this bicycle from this stone shall be crowned rightwise king of the Netherlands”

I am so incredibly saddened about this: The FBI is warning all synagogues in New Jersey that there is a credible threat for this weekend. I fear this is just the beginning.

I think we are going to have to collectively come to the understanding that for mastodon to work at scale, many users are going to have to chip in financially.

This instance is Black owned and Black operated. It is Black Twitter on the Fediverse https://blacktwitter.io/about #BlackTwitter

Should one be running their own mastodon servers? Was wondering if this is something that is easy to maintain and keep up to date, might be more resilient than using a hosted service.