Kevin Doyle
Mike Masnick โ
Watching all the folks who signed up for Mastodon accounts, and then ran back to Twitter suddenly showing up here again to talk about how Twitter is down. ๐
Shoq@mmasnick Funny how that works.
Could be a long night. Popcorn anyone?
Oblomov
Babs ๐๐โ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ป@mmasnick guilty as charged! ๐
Chaos@mmasnick it's very rich.
David Colburn@mmasnick Literally telling on themselves LOL.
Tom Bellin 
@mmasnick Hey ChatGPT: What are the downsides to "Hardcore" software development?
Sofie ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑMaybe you can share a thought, @gpt .
Software development can be immensely rewarding and give a great sense of accomplishment. To be successful, it requires dedication, attention to detail, patience, and the ability to stay motivated. You will need to juggle multiple projects simultaneously, constantly adapt to changes in the environment, and develop your coding skillset. It's a difficult path, but one that can lead to great success with a little hard work and dedication.
@gpt Sure, sounds good. But what are the downsides to "Hardcore" software development?
Software development can be demanding and time-consuming. It can be difficult to stay up-to-date with the most recent technologies, to keep track of new tools, and to stay focused on the long-term project goals. Additionally, software development can be unpredictable at times and things often do not go as planned. It can be difficult to maintain motivation when faced with long-term, complex projects.
xo@mmasnick
Iโm assuming Musk will be over his tweet limit also!
Iโm assuming Musk will be over his tweet limit also!
Josh Sternberg@mmasnick can't wait to see the article about mastodon falling off the cliff again...
Andrew Leahey@mmasnick Did you orchestrate the outage to time perfectly with your "actually Mastodon is booming" post or was that just luck?
I'd remind you sir, you're under oath.
Half Cocked Law@halfcocked @andrew Tim is off today, so... maybe this is his extra curricular move...
Annamal
Warner Crocker@mmasnick Sounds like that new 4000 character limit is about 4000 characters too many.
Chris Hisle@mmasnick reminds of when there was always a spike in tweets when Facebook was down - of people saying Facebookโs down
Lauren Weinstein@mmasnick An already logged in browser seems OK, but Tweetdeck is logged out and the login sequence is screwed up.
Antone Johnson
Pat@mmasnick battered twitter users syndrome. ๐
TheJenRemember when that's what we used Facebook for? Heh.
Matt Faustini ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ซก@mmasnick Guilty as charged lol
Coop@mmasnick Are you moralizing this somehow?
brother soul@mmasnick hilarious.
brother
Igor Brigadir@mmasnick this is the way
@mmasnick I don't think this will happen to Mastodon since it's not an app?
Highlighting yet again, another advantage of the fediverse.
(Yes I am a tech noob)
valkraider 
@RoboGorillaman @mmasnick Also, Twitter isnโt an app either. Twitter *has* an app - but the app has to talk to something. You can also log in to Twitter via the web. Twitter is the combination of those and a whole bunch of servers and data centers. All those servers and data centers take work to maintain and support and upgrade and monitor. Hard to do when you lay off the whole staff.
weems :verified:
Peter Cassizzi 
@mmasnick Maybe we can talk about what a bad day Matt Taibbi had in Congress today?
Stephen Kellat@mmasnick The Titanic just won't sink fast enough
climate voter/radical oldie@mmasnick More people should help them by leaving.
(((o))) Acoustic Mirror@mmasnick I'm concocting some kind of snarky term for this. Like "Tweekender" (from "weekender").
Or "tootist" from "tourist".
Maybe "Tweekender" is better.
@acousticmirror @[email protected] I like tweekender.
PlineyTheNewer ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป@acousticmirror @mmasnick @inquiline I would call them the B&Tweet crowd. (#NYC reference for those unfamiliar.) #TwitterDown
Patty Bluebird ๐ฆฉ
Karen E. Lund ๐๐@mmasnick It's like when people used to show up on Twitter to say that Facebook was down.
Where do we go when Mastodon is down?
Oh, yeah. It rarely is and when my account is loading slowly I go to my secondary instance.
Robert Fairhead@mmasnick, aha, explains why I've exceeded my daily tweet limit by 9am! ๐คฃ
Rode Stefan๐ด๐ข@mmasnick yep. Just need Mastadon to improve!
m3enzo
ลฟames ฦงtiffler@mmasnick Hey, I resemble that remark. ๐
Alan Gamrican@mmasnick
I love them anyway.
I welcome them back anyway.
Coming back.
Leaving.
Coming back.
Staying.
Some will.
Some won't.
So what?
Somewhere, someone will have an awakening.
Red Pill. Blue Pill.
Where what was fine isn't any longer, and won't ever be again.
Sensitive Media Warning: Self-immolation
Jo
Martin Whitaker@mmasnick I'm guilty of this and I'm going to try and make more of an effort to post on here in preference to Twitter, even when Mr Musk plugs his server rack back in.
@martin yeah, it takes some commitment, but once you do, I think you'll find that it is easy to leave the other place behind, and only check in every so often.
Andrew Bennett@mmasnick
In particular, note this:
3wombats@mmasnick Iโve got a foot in both camps because of news content.
Laura Kosloff@mmasnick ๐ ๐ I was just thinking -- after realizing that everyone and their cousin can't tweet / retweet / follow anyone -- that we're going to see a rush back here ... and I am seeing just that in my feed.
APT Ate My Homework@mmasnick honestly yes and that's fine, I ain't going to laugh at them for it. I dropped in on Mastodon twice before setting up permanently, mainly because the first two times not enough of my group of people I wanted to communicate with were here.
Definitely not going to poke fun at people doing the same
Rob Williams@http_error_418 @mmasnick I signed up for an account on mastodon.social back in 2017 but no one else I knew was here so I went back to the birb site until this year, by which point my usage of said birb site was so low anyway that I was fine with starting almost from scratch here ๐
Spoiler Alert@mmasnick hi to you too
Polis @mmasnick they are limiting daily tweets/rt for those who donโt pay. Itโs working though
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay