Dave Troy Mar 28, 2023

By the end of April, the bird site will be a substantially different user experience. Legacy check marks gone; only Blue in “For You”; no non-blue in polls.

This will have the effect of warping the entire ecosystem towards fascist shills, demagogues, and opportunists.

Now would be a good time to invest in alternative infrastructure, including making sure Mastodon instances are fast and robust. We are going to need them.

Show threadone non-non-blonde
@davetroy I don’t understand the implication that a social media microblogging website is some kind of ontological necessity to society in the first place.
Mar 28, 2023 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadDave Troy Mar 28, 2023
@chairgirlhands it's not that it's a necessity. But rather the fact that they do exist and cause harms and other effects, and those have impacts on the real world.