I share everyone's privacy/corporate dystopia concerns about Threads, but honestly the main reason I'm not getting an account there is I can't get the username "bootstheory" and I don't know if I can be bothered using my existing IG handle which I associate much more strongly with random food pics and selfies
Hey Folks! This week we are down an Ash but have the return of Kodra from Origins.
Topics Discussed:
-- the #Twitpocalypse
-- P-Speed Returns
-- #GuildWars2 and the Secrets of the Obscure expansion announcement
-- #Origins convention
-- #Vampire #LARP
-- #HonkaiStarRail
-- #Nimona
-- #Microprose exists again and gets the #Falcon license back
AggroChat #440 - The Ubiquitous LARP
https://aggronaut.com/2023/07/02/aggrochat-440-the-ubiquitous-larp/
@caseynewton The Ars Technica article mentions that third-party clients using the API were always frowned upon but I have no idea how much of that was in official policies.
From the article:
Twitter has long kept third-party clients, which allow users and small teams to customize how they view, track, and engage with tweets, at arm's length. Prior to Musk's ownership, Twitter asked developers not to make them, restricted its API, and took away push notifications and auto-refresh for the clients.
#twitterexodus #twittermigration #twitterrefugee #Twitpocalypse #twitanic #twittergeddon
Who's diggin Mastodon?
What an amazing platform and thanks to the instance hosters for saving all the Twitter refugees!!! 👍
About 75% to 80% of my Twitter feed is now marketing/advertising (incl social media marketing people who are invested in Twitter network) or automated posts (from content providers, government, etc).
And another 10% is meta-tweets (about the #Twitpocalypse).
No social #FOMO at this point, for sure. Still some utility, and I still value some of the "weak social links" there. But all easily reproducible (eventually) on #mastodon
The ongoing #Twitter apocalypse (#Twitpocalypse?) strikes a chord, because I recently walked away from a job—which I otherwise liked!—after being transferred to a sociopathic manager who wanted me gone. It just wasn't worth fighting with them, particularly when the ultimate outcome was just enriching a bunch of private equity vampires.
Though I've not liked Twitter much since 2016, I feel for the employees who are feeling forced out (of what seems to have been a fun workplace) by a shit boss.
Professor Scott Galloway speaking about how many people give quasi-religious veneration to tech entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk.
Very interesting 🤔
Ryan Cordell
Stephanie Rodgers
AggroChat Podcast
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:
Johnny Wallflower
Michael ☕️
Avengethefa11en
Gabe Wachob 🐵🐴👨💻👨🎤🐮
Kadin
Jexit 2020 