Chris Trottier
Now sites like the Daily Kos are *highly* implying that they may leave Twitter for Mastodon. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/15/2142129/-Musk-bids-good-bye-to-free-speech-on-Twitter-bans-rival-Mastodon-what-should-DKos-do
Musk bids good-bye to free speech on Twitter, bans rival Mastodon; what should DKos do?

Elon Musk has banned Mastodon from Twitter, on the grounds that a Mastodon tweet mentioned that a major Twitter user had moved to Mastodon. See Taylor Hatmaker’s “Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon” in TechCrunch. The...

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Dec 16, 2022 at 5:13amWeb
Show threadChristopher HotchkissDec 16, 2022
@atomicpoet Most of what I saw as content from Twitter was journalism so I think if journalists keep getting pushed out, Mastodon is a reasonable landing spot.
Show threadShelenn AyresDec 16, 2022
@atomicpoet New orgs and businesses should host their own instance, pay for someone to host, or pay the instance they join.
Show threadChris TrottierDec 16, 2022
@shelenn I know!
Show threadShelenn AyresDec 16, 2022
@atomicpoet I moved to the Fediverse post G+ demise. It's the right place to be for true individual freedom - free from corporate control. I am not anti-business and anti-org - it is inevitable they will find target markets in the Fediverse. But they will exist in the Fediverse if they join as guests of the people because it is the people on decentralized server instances aka nodes who control the Fediverse. With Tumblr's userbase of 135 million and growing, Vivaldi's userbase and Chrome/Firefox userbase via extensions providing easier entry for Mastodon users, critical mass is inevitable soon. We are not products.
Show threadWoke in PDX FellaDec 16, 2022

@atomicpoet That's just a community article, and I don't think it's quite saying that. Would be cool to start seeing them link to and embed Mastodon content though.

I follow Mark Sumner @Devilstower a DK staffer who often writes the #Ukraine daily update.