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ricmac, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to threads

Poll: If #Threads goes ahead with its plan to add #ActivityPub, will you follow one or more Threads users in your Mastodon account?

rbreich, 10 months ago to random

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 45 years has shifted $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans.

The wealth doesn’t “trickle down.” It gushes up.

georgetakei, 10 months ago to random

Trump lawyer Lin Wood, who spread false election conspiracies and tried to overturn the 2020 election, has agreed to permanent retirement from the practice rather than likely disbarment.

lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! If you want to help celebrate my birthday, you can:

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2. Subscribe to my Patreon so I can continue to write all the dumb silly things that I write.

I may create Low Quality Facts, but I am very grateful for all of my high quality friends here.
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AbandonedAmerica, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

1/ I'm seeing a lot of talk (still!) of defederating mastodon.social over the recent spam attacks. I have a feeling I'm going to regret this, but as someone on that instance with no current plans to move, I feel like there are some things those who are considering it may not be taking into account. There are loads of patronizing comments that people on this instance are "doing the Fediverse wrong". No, we're not. You can't have a democracy while telling others they can't choose where to be.

mastodonmigration, 1 year ago to internet

Reality check... Scaling is hard.

Just this week Mastodon added over 200,000 users, and now has over 11.5 million accounts on thousands of instances. We continue to roll along at more than 1000 new accounts per hour. The new hot topic "distributed Twitter alternative" has about 50,000 users on its one and only instance. Not saying they can't achieve scale, but they are not even close yet.

#twittermigration #Bluesky #UserCount

rbreich, 1 year ago to random

From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay grew by 1,460% while the typical worker's pay rose just 18%.

This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of average workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before.

They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

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