@uninventive@bowreality@atomicpoet@socialmedianews If a few people with “real” day jobs can run the very instance we’re on, then there’s absolutely no excuse for the CBC not to as well. I’m sure the transmitter antennas were put up before people had radios in their homes.
@emilydingwrites This was before Threads launched so it’s even more complicated now! And I didn’t factor in Substack Notes as well. Anyway, many people probably just mirror their postings across multiple platforms.
> Almost exactly six months after #Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.
tl;dr:
#BlueSky seems designed to get secondarily centralized in the "reach" layer (as they call it)
@rysiek > The “speech” layer should remain neutral, distributing authority and designed to ensure everyone has a voice. The “reach” layer lives on top, built for flexibility and designed to scale.
So... It's just a way to offload the cost of hosting data to third parties with retaining all of the benefits to capital that come with owning and controlling an arena of public discourse? Yikes.
Was just asked by a friend if I wanted a #BlueSky invite.
My reply?
“Thanks but no thanks.”
Why?
Because I don’t need to see the app. I know the people behind it and what they stand for. The app can only ever be a manifestation of (or an initial misdirection from) that.
Expecting the wolf that took a bite out of you last time to this time act in your interests is how you end up as its dinner.
@filipesm@aral its flaws are that it was launched after AP was standardized and widely used.
Promoting the BS protocol right now is reckless and destructive. We need to rally around the protocols that are working, and improve them with extensions, not bottom up rebuilds.
The people working on BS know how much damage they could do, and they're continuing anyway, because they don't share our values.
Please don't give them attention. They need to disappear quickly.
I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration
@TNLNYC I left my account over there up for about 7 months encouraging others to exit the platform, then finally left. I’m glad I’m out of there now.
Welcome to Mastodon!
⛔️🌐 Bloque la pub sur internet et passe le bloqueur à tes voisin·es ! 📢
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Le savais-tu ? Plus de 50 % des internautes 🛜 n’ont jamais installé de bloqueur de publicité. 📵 Ce 28 janvier 2024 est la journée européenne de protection des données, A cette occasion, avec @LaQuadrature , nous vous recommandons d'installer un bloqueur de pub !
@RAPasso@LaQuadrature j'ai dû enlever le bloqueur de pubs sur l'ordinateur pour YouTube, t'a-t-il une solution (autre que "regarder les vidéos sur PeerTube" 😜) ?
I don't think #twitter really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.
What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.
The same is likely happening with #Reddit ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( #tiktok ).
The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.
@jannem Fingers crossed that EU exit actually goes through.
Would set such a nice precedent in the public consciousness which still seems to believe to some extent that these ridiculous companies are somehow a necessary evil.
I'm definitely a cat person, but this genuinely made me LOL. Make sure you click on the picture to see all 9 -- the last ones are the best. #funny#reddit#dogs
I've decided I like the trolls who say "if you block me, it means I win." It makes me giggle to imagine them all alone in the dark, by themselves, just winning. #SocialMedia
#Broke & in the USA? You've got until this Feb 7th to enroll in the Affordable Connectivity Program, which knocks 30$/month off of you #internet bill, and offers a 1x tech hardware purchase benefit.
There's a variety of ways you can qualify besides having HH income >200% of the Federal #Poverty Guidelines, including receiving
I had a Twitter list "standard stuff" where I listed the core accounts I definitely wanted to hear about. This fav list grew over the years and had 120 users in total. These were active users that in the golden era posted every day. These were the ones I wanted to read whenever possible.
I wanted to see what's the status today so I went through every account and here's the result. By "inactive" I mean users who haven't posted anything in two months or more.
20% have completely deleted their account (the list now has 95 users)
36% still post frequently
64% are inactive or quit using Twitter
30% are inactive without any reason given
23% of those who still post on X also have active Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads accounts
@rolle I’ve noticed a huge change in Twitter. Interaction with others has gone down. My favourite users have left and others don’t post like they used to.
@rolle I deleted my Twitter account and moved to Mastodon. I have made accounts on Thread and Bluesky, but they only have a post pointing to my Mastodon account. I really enjoy spelunking in the streams, finding new people to follow in a slow and "organic" way, instead of being algorithm-fed!