Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

jesus christ wolfram alpha, I'm sorry I asked

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/

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:

@wspd7pio

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

Full list:
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/heres-who-to-follow-on-mastodon-for-all-your-windows-and-tech-needs

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

“Interesting. Suggest that maybe we might still have an itsy bitsy bot problem on Twitter …”

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.