Until now I hadn’t appreciated that were very serious structural problems at Twitter. I thought Elon would make it messy, but it would robustly continue. This below, however, is starting to make me much more concerned.
I came across to Mastodon out of curiosity, fun, sense of opportunity & respect for the concept. Now I’m thinking it’s a vital hedge for us all against serious Twitter risks, including collapse.
@Lauretz @stevemundey in fairness it's also a phenomenal social hub for disabled people, and the turf in which a lot of essential grassroots activism grows!
Anyway they'll all come here when it folds, so brace yourself. 😂
This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on what the recent mass migration here looked like from the perspective of those who had been on Mastodon for some time. Please read it, especially if you want to take this new (for you) platform seriously. https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
@mikegalsworthy Reading today about the shenanigans with 'blue tick' accounts (did Musk even 'get' what they were for) and more executive resignations, it really does look like Twitter is on borrowed time.
It's a different vibe here and I've yet to see a lot of accounts I followed migrate across but I'm already liking the more considered and in-depth threads here. Will it last I wonder?
@DameNotDorries @mikegalsworthy The same way as Wikipedia, public donations and donations from wealthy individuals, companies and foundations.
I am more concerned about moderation as it scales up.
@bullivant @DameNotDorries @mikegalsworthy
I'm also worried about moderation here, already I've noticed that any discussion of women's rights can get stamped on.
It's all going to depend on different groups/instances, and some could be at the mercy of mods preferences.
I suspect there may be a bit of shuffling around till we find the one we're happy with.
@Gussets @DameNotDorries @mikegalsworthy Gussets, there are plenty of blocking options here so you should be good there.
In terms of trans issues, I don't know if you are aware that many trans people were early adopters of Mastodon as a safe space because of the reaction they faced on other social media platforms including the other site?
Kindness is important here, so maybe other people thought that you were being a little unkind? I don't know, but maybe? Just throwing it out there.
@mikegalsworthy Immediate priority for everyone with a Twitter account is to reset your password, if you also use that password on any other site, or service. If Twitter gets hacked, password databases are always a priority target for malicious actors.
Make your password 20 characters or more. Mixture of letters (upper and lowercase), numbers, AND symbols.
Fair comment, but the point I'd make in return is that we don't know how Twitter passwords are stored, who has access to the encryption, or what standard of encryption is used.
In short, always better to be safe than sorry, especially when resetting your password is a quick activity to perform.
@dangerdyke @mikegalsworthy Again, fair enough, but even hashing doesn't eliminate risk. Hashing can be cracked.
It all depends on how determined the malicious party is, the tools they have at their disposal, and what they hope to gain.
The brutish behavior shown by Musk to Twitter employees, executives, and users points to his incompetence. Maybe at Tesla & SpaceX, he's got teams that actually know what they're doing?
His acquisition of Twitter was a personal ego thing, w/ no team ready to do the actual work.
Thus, he's trying to rule Twitter by decree (without knowing what really needs to be done), and making an absolute hash of it. Hence the meltdown of the platform.
@BosunArras @mikegalsworthy if your email address is attached to your Twitter account, it is likely to be “out there” already. I would not bother.
Also, your data would be kept for a while by the company before being anonymised so deleting it now won’t have any sort of impact.
@mikegalsworthy it’s not structural issues. Twitter took on a huge amount of debt as a result of how the takeover was structured (with Elon using his Tesla shares as collateral).
You can’t fire your key execs on day 1, board on day 2, a huge chunk of employees on day 7, all while pushing for huge unpopular product changes within unrealistic timeframes and with what seems to be no plan, testing or compliance. Any company would fall apart.
@moystard @mikegalsworthy don’t get me started on that one. The opposite of best practice.
Countries have different employee protections and some require a huge lead time to get all the HR/admin/legal stuff done. 🫠
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