Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

FYI, if still missing your #traffic, #wx etc #news from over there, check out this Bird Makeup by @vincent

Just drop in thar Twitter handle here 👉 https://bird.makeup/
Cut/paste the new generated handle into Mastodon’s “Explore” box and follow it. Easy peas;)

I’ve already created quite a few for #seattle #PNW-focused sites (eg, SDOT, High Country) and it works great! Thanks, Vincent!

Of course, no idea if it too will be snared by 🐦 ongoing cancel culture 🤷🏻‍♀️
#TwitterMigration

I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

"The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #politics

I'm happy to share that we're gearing up to support Mastodon in @buffer *very* soon! 🎉

I'm keen to be thoughtful about how we support Mastodon through the product and as a company: this is a very special community and technology. So we'll also be all ears as we introduce Buffer support.

We're looking for Buffer users (can be a brand new user, too!) to help us with early testing of our Mastodon support, so if you want to try it, reply here!

A good critique of the Ai art lawsuit http://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.com #aiart

Can’t even make this up

After stealing and losing investors, friends, and institutions capital via the 3AC scheme, the same crew is now launching a new exchange called “GTX”

JFC, might as well just call it FTX 2.0
https://twitter.com/bigmagicdao/status/1614981003008933889

I don't want Mastodon to be a place where all I talk about is the continuing demise of Twitter, but...Twitter pulled the plug on all of the top third-party Twitter clients and Twitterrific's Craig Hockenberry has some things to say about it:

https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

So since users of bird.makeup keep increasing like crazy, I've setup a Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/birddotmakeup

Please help me grow a free and open source service in a sustainable way. Thank you! 😄

So with the API suspension to third party bird apps, it looks like I'm over here full time. @vincent's bridge service bird.makeup allows me to maintain the curated experience I had over there, & as people flow over to Mastodon, I can follow their native accounts. As a previous Tweetbot user, I'm keen for @paul & co's Ivory Mastodon app, but am sad for all the unseen work put into version 7.2 of Tweetbot which was only out for a handful of days before the API wars began.

discord has ruined the definition of the word "server" for potentially an entire generation of people