When I joined that other site many years ago I did so to get the latest local weather from others nearby. Now that the other site is horrible and dying I am looking on #Mastodon for local weather from folks nearby. However there doesn't seem to be the same engagement about weather on here. Does anyone else find this as well? Or have suggestions? I follow #yegwx and #abstorm, but after the wild thunder storm here in #yeg last night I think I saw 3 toots only🤷♂️
From the birdsite. #abstorm is the hashtag used to track the violent storm currently hitting Alberta, Canada.
"Hey @elonmusk you stupid fuck. There is currently a tornado warning about 100 km away and I would use twitter to follow the #abstorm hashtag to see if I was in the path of danger and i can't now because i reached my 600 read limit. People will die because of this."
"Wait - Musk is limiting how many tweets we can read?! It’s severe #abstorm season & we can’t track live updates because Musk is limiting READS?!"
"Serious question @elonmusk
Are you aware there are countless people who rely on Twitter to stay safe during severe weather? Please. This is not helpful and you are putting people in danger by preventing access to critical updates."
"@elonmusk
you bought a platform that has been embedded into key parts of daily life for immediate updates - including severe storm tracking. Today you put lives at risk with the inability to obtain real time info-THE key aspect of this platform."