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Tom Tomorrowwelp I haven't really been posting much here at the new site but since the purge is going down at the old one, thought I ought to start arranging my furniture and hanging my posters over here
Brian Dear@tomtomorrow Glad to see you here!
Matilda@tomtomorrow We’ve been looking forward to it!
⛰🌲Randy Walters🌲⛰ has moved!@tomtomorrow Good to see you, Dan … it’s a strange phenomenon, leaving the bird behind, and gradually running into familiar faces here. It’s great!
Chris Winters
Jimi@tomtomorrow I just deleted Twitter a minute ago - right after I heard of the journalist suspensions. It was my favorite site.
Glad that you are here!
Matthew Martin@tomtomorrow one of us! one of us! one of us!
Alistair Davidson@tomtomorrow it's nice here, just takes a wee bit to get set up again. Turns out the website doesn't matter much but people do, a lot.
Robin from Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦@tomtomorrow finally! LFG
Robin
Doctor M. Popular@tomtomorrow once you get used to it, I really think Mastodon is more fun than Twitter has been.
And let's face it, Twitter is dying. There is no chance that Twitter will ever come back to its former glory. At least this space is ours. We'll never have an Elon or Zuck ruining it.
Alex is always organizing
Peter Principle@tomtomorrow It's definitely starting to feel like the old blogging days over here, circa 2004-2005.
So I guess there is a silver lining to a fascist takeover of a major social media platform...
Mirishuli@tomtomorrow @jobsboils Isn’t it weird to realize those good ole days really were good? 🌻🍻
@MiriShuli They weren't so good if you were in, say Iraq.
But, for just a brief time -- post AOL, pre Facebook -- there was a crack in the wall of corporate/oligarch media control. And it was a lot of fun pushing through it.
@jobsboils I made lifelong friends on the AOL boards. My kids were toddlers and we could post during the day, as the kids and life allowed. We carried conversations on for days and days. We solved the world’s problems together there. My very best friend in life was found on those boards. I have long missed the ability to have meaningful and sustained conversations with learned and cogent folks. Plus, having 500 characters means we can write complete sentences, thus we don’t sound so terse.
@MiriShuli I have nothing against chat boards -- or even AOL, particularly -- but it was a "walled garden," as are Facebook and Twitter.
The blog scene of the early '00s had such a heady freedom to it. So much room for creativity and community -- long form, short form, journalism, opinion, fiction, poetry, the beginnings of open source intelligence garhering. And a momentarily level playing field on the web.
It couldn't last, of course.
The Thankless Water Heater@tomtomorrow So happy to see you here! Stick around! It’s so much nicer than the other place!
boboosen@tomtomorrow I’m so glad! I’m hoping to get all my favorites over here.
Miragee@boboosen @tomtomorrow I am seeing more and more of my favorites here, especially today after “the purge.”
Susan is Surfeited on Politics@tomtomorrow, Dan, great to see you here.
@tomtomorrow Welcome! 🌻
Geoff Green@tomtomorrow yay! Glad to see you here.
bettybarcode (she/her) 🚲@tomtomorrow
Oh, goody! Here's a welcome bouquet from the neighbors! 💐
Oh, goody! Here's a welcome bouquet from the neighbors! 💐
Eldritch Scerry@tomtomorrow: “Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man!”
Content Love Knowles@tomtomorrow yeah there's a bunch of us who are fixing up our rooms over here...
Catherine Berry@contentlove @tomtomorrow , it's a much nicer neighborhood here. That place is rapidly turning into a cross between a landfill and a war zone.
MaryinAnnArbor@tomtomorrow Welcome! I'll go make you a margarita!
Night Mists@tomtomorrow I'm hoping there's room in the back for a garden.
Kevin Bedell@tomtomorrow welcome to the new party. Let’s leave the old one a smoking carcass of Russian trolls and bots.
Pari Moon-Forest@tomtomorrow
Welcome. Ask questions if you get turned around, make yourself comfy. Cookies and lovely photos should be along shortly.
Kindness abounds.
And yeah I got off the other site 2 days ago-it seems so much more toxic. Reactivated tonight to peek in, saw the journalists being axed and went "ooh, yikes no, deactivate and BYEEE".
Welcome. Ask questions if you get turned around, make yourself comfy. Cookies and lovely photos should be along shortly.
Kindness abounds.
And yeah I got off the other site 2 days ago-it seems so much more toxic. Reactivated tonight to peek in, saw the journalists being axed and went "ooh, yikes no, deactivate and BYEEE".
Sir Nick the Ardent
Skiriki Fyxe@tomtomorrow Welcome! Yeah, when I woke up this morning, I went "so WHAT happened while I was sleeping, he did WHAT now?"
Greg Hartwick@tomtomorrow It’s like moving from a big and dangerous city to a small town in the country. All civilized people are welcome here. We are growing everyday.