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It’s Not About Status, Elon. Only Now It Is.
It's been about 48 hours since Elon killed legacy checkmarks in an attempt to convince people, but hopefully especially celebrities, to make the switch. How's it going?

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Oh.

Well then! Let's talk about why this is such an awful and in retrospect obviously avoidable catastroph
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Pretty sure the #bluecheck block is having a material impact to Twitter’s performance.

GitHub stars are to the upcoming dot ai bubble what clicks were to the dot com bubble

Hoo boy, another discussion about how mailing lists are terrible and therefore must be replaced by a single point of failure system with non-exportable archives.

Please don't clog up the Transgender Concerns Form with so many spurious reports that it becomes unusable, and the Missouri government gets Big Mad. Because that would be wrong. Here's a link to the form so you'll know exactly where not to do that: ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/tr

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@experiencersinternational there are reasonable arguments against it though, the strength of the fediverse is that we can agree to disagree on that and move on. Some servers allow it and some don’t

@aurynn @experiencersinternational also if you have users that depends on some of the mirrors you can also run your own instance, with an allow list if you want

Curious to know what are people intuition about it without getting into a computer science argument

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In your view, are a Twitter handle and their bird.makeup equivalent:

I would be nice if Mastodon admin could make an allow-list of accounts for other servers, this would allow them to only allow accounts of public interest for their community from bird.makeup and remove noise from the rest.

That feature might be too niche though.

yeah gonna need to suspend bird dot makeup, and go through and suspend all the twitter mirrors.

gross af.

1/ A rare disagree w/ the great Matt Levine. Crypto is not illegal like meth is. Crypto is under the same regime like TradFi, according to the SEC itself.

It would be deeply odd if the Chair of the SEC had never bought a single share of stock nor invested in a mutual fund.

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