Mastodawn

Dan Gillmor Jan 15, 2023

One of the people who did the most to help make Twitter popular -- because his application made it better -- calls it quits after Musk and minions pulled the plug last week on him and many others. He sees great possibilities in the protocol underlying Mastodon, and I can't wait to see what he and people like him do to restore a truly decentralized web: https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/109695112387770838

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Dan Gillmor Jan 15, 2023

"What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.

"But I guess that’s what you should expect from a shitty person."

--- Craig Hockenberry on Elon Musk

https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

The Shit Show • furbo.org

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Furbo.org by Craig Hockenberry

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Futurist Jim Carroll

@dangillmor This is a wonderful read. And this sentence gets me.

It's that type of comment that makes me realize I need to double down on ActivityPub, and hence, I'm exploring how to get Writefreely happening in my space. I've already played around with Peertube, but maybe it's time to move beyond play. What I'm hearing someone like Craig say is he and others might pull together tools that help to pull this stuff together. To me, that's exciting!