Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
@kkremitzki I’m working on https://bird.makeup which allows you to follow Twitter users directly from Mastodon. Feel free to use it!
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Here's a neat interview with @blaine about Mastodon and how Fission is working to bring IPFS to the Fediverse. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
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One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.
With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:
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Microsoft people on Mastodon:
Damian Edwards: @damianedwards
Brandon LeBlanc: @brandonleblanc
Jen Gentleman: @JenMsft
Michael Gillett: @MichaelGillett
Aaron Greenberg: @aarongreenberg
Mike Griese: @zadjii
Stefan Malter: @malter365
Scott Hanselman: @shanselman
Kyle Pflug: @kylealden
Clint Rutkas: @clintrutkas
Phil Spencer: @xboxp3
Frank X. Shaw: @fxshaw
Michael West: @michaelwest
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Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
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“Interesting. Suggest that maybe we might still have an itsy bitsy bot problem on Twitter …”
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I've waited a few days to post this about the #mastodonmigration. Here is the evolution of the new accounts in #mastodon after the events in the last week. After each new ban/suspension in the #bluebird we see a spike in new accounts in #mastodon. But recent growth seems to be more steady at around 50k per day. Since the #bluebird purchase by Musk, more than 3 million new accounts were created in #mastodon.
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Giving a new developer the grand tour of the legacy code i’m supporting.
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We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!
We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).
Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.
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Forbes article included a 'recommended follows' list with pretty decent classification set up, FWIW:
Molly JongFast, Vanity Fair (103K) @mollyjongfast
Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post (94K) @taylorlorenz
Drew Harwell, Washington Post (43K) @drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (41K) @donieosullivan
Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC (39K) @mehdihasan
Micah Lee, The Intercept (37K) @micahflee
Jay Rosen, NYU professor (34K) @jayrosen_nyu
Mike Masnick, Techdirt (33K) @mmasnick
Steve Herman, Voice of America @w7voa
Jeff Jarvis, Newmark School professor (24K) @jeffjarvis
Casey Newton (20K) @caseynewton
Leo Laporte, TWiT podcast (19K) @leo
Ben Collins, NBC News (17K) @oneunderscore_@mastodon.social
Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone (11K) @noahshachtman
Joanna Stern, WSJ @joannastern
Dan Gillmor @dangillmor
Jim Acosta, CNN @acosta
Patrick LaForge, New York Times @palafo
Dell Cameron, Wired @dell
Will Oremus, Washington Post @willoremus
Andrew Couts, Wired @couts
Andy Greenberg, Wired @agreenberg
Kevin Collier, NBC @kevincollier
Rachel Metz, CNN @rachelmetz
Josh Steinberg, Morning Brew @joshsternberg
George Musser, Scientific American @gmusser
Jack Ryan, CNET @dctrjack
Shannon Vavra, The Daily Beast @shanvav
James Temple, MIT Technology Review @jtemple
Tae Kim, Barron’s @firstadopter
Chris Taylor, Reuters @christaylor_nyc
Martine Paris, Forbes @martineparis
Celebrities
George Takei, Star Trek (290K) @georgetakei
Neil Gaiman, best-selling author (190K) @neilhimself
Kathy Griffin, Musk-banned comedian (70K) @kathygriffin
James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy (25K) @jamesgunn
Simon Stalenhag, Tales From The Loop (10K) @simonstalenhag
Politics & Economy
Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor (164K) @rbreich
Walter Shaub (77K) @WalterShaub
Matt Tait (49K) @Pwnallthethings
Paul Krugman, Nobel prize economist (29K) @pkrugman
Electronic Frontier Foundation (23K) @eff
Greta Thunberg, climate activist (10K) @gretathunberg
Tech & Gaming
Eugen Rochko, Mastodon founder (275K) @Gargron
Brian Krebs (23K) @briankrebs
Anil Dash, serial entrepreneur (22K) @anildash
Matt Blaze, Georgetown professor (17K) @mattblaze
Paul Graham, Y Combinator founder (14K) @paulg
David Carroll, Netflix’s The Great Hack (12K) @profcarroll
Tim Schafer, Double Fine @TimOfLegend
Jason Schreier, Bloomberg @jasonschreier
Brian Crecente, Kotaku founder @Crecenteb
Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin founder @ummjackson
John Battelle @Jbat
Spencer Dailey, Techmeme @spencerdailey
Bram Cohen, BitTorrent founder @bramcohen
Amusements
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (63K) @apod.botsin.space
NASA unofficial fan bot (36K) @nasa
Rolling Stone (24K) @RollingStone
Abandoned America (18K) @AbandonedAmerica
Foxes Every Hour @toomanyfoxes
Vote Chess @VoteChess
OP: @theghostoftomjoad
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People don't get what freedom means. Twitter is free to ban you for referring to other sites; just as if you owned a site you wd be free to ban people from mentioning Twitter, or mispelling the name of rivers.
Your mistake is to *depend* on someone else who can decide your fate.
@chkuendig @couts Glad you like it!
I just pushed an update with regards to videos. They should work now, but do ping me if you see anything weird.
Threads is probably the next thing I want to make work great. I don't have unit tests for that part yet and I've probably broken them.
Quotes tweets are more complicated... They don't have a native equivalent and I'm not sure yet of the design I'll do. I can make them act like thread in the most simple cases
But anyway thanks for the feedback!
Just pushed an update to https://bird.makeup/ : now videos should be playable, and not just a screenshot of it. So @dog_rates should work great now!
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Just created @pytorch here.
Start following it for updates (will setup syndication shortly).
The creator of Lichess is on mastodon now: @thibault , nice!
@bitbraindev They are definitely using all interactions for further training of the AI model. I think that is the main reason they made it free to use for now even if it costs them so much to run. It might suggest your ideas to someone else in the near future
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Prediction:
1. Shareholder pressure from Tesla keeps increasing
2. Musk realizes that since he's taken over he's only made Twitter's financial losses worse, so now it's continuously burning a hole in his pocket
3. Musk steps down, blaming woke media, the libs, etc.
4. Twitter is damaged goods. Gets sold for $1 bln to some faceless corporation (like Tumblr was sold to Verizon).
5. Twitter slowly becomes irrelevant
6. 3 years later, some fans buy it for $1 million and try to open source it
Welcome to the fediverse @Techaltar! I love your videos
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BREAKING NEWS!
Internal sources claim John Mastodon will be the new CEO of Twitter.
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
