Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

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.

Giving a new developer the grand tour of the legacy code i’m supporting.

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.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

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
is also

@avid

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.

Just created @pytorch here.

Start following it for updates (will setup syndication shortly).

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

BREAKING NEWS!
Internal sources claim John Mastodon will be the new CEO of Twitter.

The issue with Elon's latest actions is that this time, they are not partisan thoughtcrimes that primarily deeply offend wokes or anything like that. Rather, they go against cross-tribal principles that are a commonly understood bedrock of fair competition. This crosses a new line.

Some people "Things can't go viral on #mastodon

#JohnMastodon: "Hold my beer."

And here's the official announcement:

The entire @macstories team and media properties are now on Mastodon. We did it on our own server, which we fully control, and which anyone can follow thanks to federation.

I'm excited to own our social media presence. Long live the open web. Let's go 🚀

https://www.macstories.net/news/macstories-is-on-mastodon-with-its-own-server/

“It is the more personal pain of seeing a 5% GPU utilization number in production. I am offended by it.” 🔥

—@ID_AA_Carmack, reflecting on his resignation from Facebook.

TIL in 1935 FDR introduced a top tier tax rate of 89%. Only one person was rich enough to qualify for the tax rate: John D Rockefeller.

maybe twitter's URL censoring is so easily circumvented because all the software engineers still there are desperately trying to keep their lines of code metrics as high as possible