Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

This account is verified through my website and Fedified.

I also currently have control over chanimal on this same instance as well as chanimal at kolektiva social, eldritch cafe, tech lgbt, fediscience org, mstdn science, mastodon world, and mas.to.

It’s easy to impersonate here. If you see anyone using the chanimal handle elsewhere, or any other handle claiming to be me, it’s not me.

Any account I am actively using will be verified through a link on my website.

Nov 13, 2022 at 5:06pmWeb
Show threadChanda Prescod-WeinsteinNov 13, 2022
I have no plans to regularly use mastodon right now.
Show threadChanda Prescod-WeinsteinNov 14, 2022

People who want to keep up with me and don’t want to use Twitter (or read this after Twitter has crashed), you can subscribe to my substack which is always free99 http://chanda.substack.com

And probably you can find me on Project Mushroom in future.

The Disordered Cosmos | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Substack

Cosmology, Particles, and the Stuff That Came After. Click to read The Disordered Cosmos, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Show threadMx. Amadi LovelaceNov 14, 2022
@chanda This is what’s the worst part of this to me, everyone is retreating to Substack and Patreon and other one-way forms of communication. Our community conversations are being stolen.
Show threadGtmlosangelesNov 14, 2022
@chanda Now I have to ask ... Project Mushroom?
Show threadMichael BuschNov 14, 2022
@Gtmlosangeles @chanda Project Mushroom is a new climate-justice focused Mastodon instance and associated materials - https://newsletters.projectmushroom.xyz/about/ .
🍄 About Project Mushroom 🍄

Project Mushroom is a community-led effort to build a safe place on the internet. We are an open-source community working for justice.

Project Mushroom
Show threadMrsWhatsitNov 25, 2022

@Gtmlosangeles @chanda

Kickstarter is underway.

"Project Mushroom is now the largest Mastodon project with climate justice as a priority — and one of the fastest growing in the English language. More than 10,000 people signed up for our waitlist in our first 48 hours."

https://newsletters.projectmushroom.xyz/about/

🍄 About Project Mushroom 🍄

Project Mushroom is a community-led effort to build a safe place on the internet. We are an open-source community working for justice.

Project Mushroom
Show threadKevin GaminNov 13, 2022
@chanda This is Mastodon’s loss, not yours. I hope the Fediverse becomes a safer and more welcoming environment.
Show threadpodkaynelivesNov 20, 2022
@chanda Sorry to hear that but I'm subscribed to your Substance now so I can stay up to date now that I'm leaving Twitter.
Show threadBilliard LentilNov 13, 2022
@chanda Glad to see you back here ❤️ thank you
Show threadJoel BarrettNov 13, 2022
@chanda just curious and still learning, I assume someone could create an account on a different Mastodon instance using the same handle/username but with the different domain/instance. Is that accurate? Or does the username get “reserved” across all Mastodon instances?
Show threadtoolbear#🪧Nov 14, 2022

@joelbarrett @chanda

It's the former. And a sign of fediverse' incomplete measures to protect Black & other marginalized people from abuse here.

I'm hopeful that the will exists to improve because of less perverse incentives. I fault no one for keeping a cautious distance until the community demonstrates better priorities.

Relevant: watchdogs report big increase in "mastodon" mentions on 4chan. A white-supremacist offensive is ramping up.

Show threadAnAffordableWizardNov 23, 2022

@joelbarrett @chanda Yes people can do that.
However theres a big caveat with that. There are standards generally expected of mastodon instances , which includes not allowing abusive accounts, which obv includes impersonations of other users.

If an instance permits it, theres a very solid chance they'll get rapidly de-federated. Which puts a very strong grass roots pressure on mastodon instance administrators to stamp out abusive and impersonation accounts.

Show threadJoel BarrettNov 23, 2022
@chanda @shayneoneill That’s what I thought. It doesn’t make sense to create the same username across all Mastodon instances. Besides never being complete, it’s just a waste of time and server resources. Kind of like trying to get the same email user name on all the different email servers. Thanks.
Show threadniederbayerNov 23, 2022
@chanda hi from Germany and cheer up! A relatitively new platform, yes, but people are still the same, sadly. This cannot be changed. Cowards who hide behind the anonymity of social platforms will be here just as anywhere else. Don’t let them distract you. In my opinion we have to respect the person even when we don’t agree with the message ( of course I don’t talk about trolls with drath threads but normal people who express publicly their views that may seem odd to some others)