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Michael StancliftTwitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
trendless@vmstan without execs looking over their shoulders, said sysadmins/engineers might even run a tighter technical ship with their instances than they do with anything at their dayjobs..
spmatich vk3spm 
@trendless @vmstan in which case, who do they think keeps #failfastbirdthing services running? If someone has been doing their job too well, fairly sure it isn't the CEO.
@trendless without a doubt.
Jeff Haluska@trendless @vmstan The moderation also has been impressive.
Norobiik @@trendless @vmstan Completely agree. And this is an age-old question dating back to the BBS era in the 90's - not surprised it's coming up again now.
Fulkery1@vmstan bold of you to assume he asked what the button does.
@fulkery1 I assumed he just pushed it to find out.
Rachel Maria
Rob Hadley
Voradams 
@vmstan I would say the horrid edgelord on the horrid website is not asking about what buttons do before pressing them.
To do so would question the divine right for the Edgelord to rule over the horrid website!
Nick@vmstan It's almost unbelievable how dumb he is.
@linuxfiend after watching him, no one should ever suffer from imposter syndrome again.
Live, Laugh, Lovecraft@vmstan @linuxfiend This. So much this.
Cath@vmstan @linuxfiend The elderly folks that come to my internet security classes have more tech knowledge than Elon and I am not going for hyperbole here.
betweenstars@linuxfiend @vmstan Yeah, it’s just astonishing, really.
mirihawk 🏳️🌈Wasn't he a rich guy who could just buy things and pretend he invented stuff? Did I hear that he got a degree awarded to him without getting all the courses done? Anyway, I hear you. A friend calls him Melon Husk.
Toddo 
@vmstan There’s a weird trust of big corporations (over small, independent anything) kinda baked into our neoliberal/late-capitalist moment. It is baffling to me.
@toddo indeed. I tell people my instance costs about $50 a month and a bunch of us are chipping in … but they would rather see a “business” behind it even if it’s $44b in debt.
GirtBySea
Riley S. Faelan
David Carroll@vmstan can I repost this to the birdsite please?
@vmstan for your records lol https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1592322975675879424
David Carroll🐘 on Twitter
“On masto rn— Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?” https://t.co/axlx7Q9wiA”
mattlqx@vmstan Buttons? He's just running around yanking cords.
Chloé Raccoon
meeraclewhip@vmstan Elon Twitter Blue-it
Mystic@vmstan also started a fight with the wrong senator
Thorne Lawler@vmstan The mindset which comes from having only one service provided by only one company is one of fear, uncertainty and doubt. The idea that you can just keep on tooting somewhere else is a foreign way of thinking.
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Elons just jealous Jeff can lose a trillion in market cap & still be bigger than him.
Elons just jealous Jeff can lose a trillion in market cap & still be bigger than him.
@vmstan 2fa , what’s this ? Let’s just disable it and lock out 20% of our user base.
Mark VandeWettering 📻🔭👾@vmstan To be fair, both things may be problematic. There are certainly technical problems associated with running an instance, but there are also the same sort of societal/ethical issues that Twitter in the post-Musk acquisition phase that also are problematic for Mastodon, no matter how good the technical support is.
Matt Blaze@vmstan He's going to set off the Halon system next, isn't he?
@mattblaze probably just get rid of it.
Silicon Valley BEST SCENE - Richard Hendricks vs. door
Karin Sorenby@vmstan yep.. like hmm.. who is more trust worthy?🙄I would not vote on the Rich Boy Musk..
Jim
The Elephant In The Room By Fiona Dobson
Devon | A CloudSecurity Guy
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Phil Landmeier@vmstan Great post. I bookmarked it, but am not sure what that means yet. Haha.
🌹 Adeline Myles 🌹@vmstan funny, true story from my younger years:
New IT director who originated in the finance department took his wife and in-laws to tour the data center on a Saturday just after when new servers were put in that had buttons on the front you could push for indicator lights on the backs.
He promptly proceeded to walk around pushing all of the "indicator buttons" – except he was actually pushing the power buttons and turned off every server in the data center. 🤦♀️🙄😬
Andrew Waterloo@vmstan "I don't think this light should be blinking like that"
CyberPsychoKitten@vmstan he looks more and more like Trump everyday except HE is actually worth something...
@vmstan and really...anyone that has to 'announce' supposed 'freedoms' they are gonna trickle down to us peons, tells me 2 things: 1] duplicitous intent and 2] that he will take them away at a later date that looks like yesterday...anyone powerful enough to give you whatever you want...is powerful enough to take everything you have [and will]
Neal Babcock (he/him)@vmstan The Highlander is alone in the immortal age group because there can be only one.
JCheray@vmstan Yeah he might have wanted to actually learn the platform inside and out before he bought it. He didn't. He's going to tank it.
WiseOldOwl@vmstan the big one I heard today was how DMs weren't safe on this site because the aren't encrypted and moderators and others can see them. They aren't really private.
@WiseOldOwl 100% true but also Elon reads all your DMs over there.
It’s like the argument people had about IT people being able to read other peoples emails. I don’t even like reading my own email. Why would I want to read yours?
fear is not a Weltanschauung@vmstan @WiseOldOwl
"yes but on twitter you get fired if you read people's dms if you're a twitter employee"
they can only fire you if they somehow catch you. It's the same consequence of being discovered to have betrayed community trust in a trust-based system, just codified in a corporate document for people to whom trust is an amusing anachronism.
"yes but on twitter you get fired if you read people's dms if you're a twitter employee"
they can only fire you if they somehow catch you. It's the same consequence of being discovered to have betrayed community trust in a trust-based system, just codified in a corporate document for people to whom trust is an amusing anachronism.
@WiseOldOwl @vmstan: Unlike ... er ... ?
@riley I don't understand. Can you give me more info?
@WiseOldOwl: The "DMs can be seen by sysadmins" is a red herring argument when comparing Mastodon/Fediverse against Twitter. Twitter doesn't have any more protections against corporate employees seeing DMs. If you want cryptographic privacy, use a cryptographic communications protocol like PGP or Signal.
@riley Ok, I was only commenting about what I had seen on the bird being discussed. I presonally don't have an issue. I have always been taught that with the internet speak as if anything you say could end up on the nightly news or a billboard for everyone to see or hear.