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Aaron RuparSo Elon Musk, apparently throwing a fit after Substack announced a Twitter-like "Notes" product earlier this week, has now not only blocked tweets from being embedded in Substack posts but has blocked Substack articles from being shared on Twitter. It's preposterous but also reflective of his broader philosophy for ruini-- I mean running the company, which is hostage-taking and destruction instead of trying to grow the platform by, you know, improving it.
My video tweets alone have done more than 4 billion views over the years. I don't expect Twitter to throw a parade for me, but it would be nice if they would at least just leave progressive creators and journalists alone. Instead, every week seems to bring new opportunities to shit on us and make it increasingly difficult to use the platform to promote our content. It's ridiculous, and I'm going to take today off from providing free content for Elon.
I am going to try to use this latest annoyance as an opportunity to grow my presence on other platforms, including here on Mastodon. And if you've enjoyed my coverage over the years on Twitter, at Vox, or since I've gone independent, I humbly ask you to subscribe to my newsletter, Public Notice. I think you'll enjoy the content, and paid subscriptions are the only way to support my work. Just click the link below to sign up. Thank you for the support! https://aaronrupar.substack.com/subscribe
GlenG🌻 - Support UkraineAlready signed up, Aaron. I highly recommend it.
Very timely articles, well supported, excellent point of view, and well put together.
Glad to hear you're maintaining your presence here in Mastodon.
AI6YR Ben@atrupar Glad to have you posting here again, we don't bite!
BarbaraKB in Michigan@atrupar as long as #journalists continue to have unique content, threads and discussions at Twitter alone, Mastodon, and other outlets, will grow slowly.
I understand why journalists continue with a presence at Twitter but it *must* be repeated elsewhere. I will no longer give my own original content or reply to journalists at the bird site any more. #TwitterMigration
🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸I'll tell you why they still use Twitter. Their corporate masters tell them in order to please their advertisers
@lednabm @barbarakb @atrupar that’s not quite how journalism works. many sites are non-profit or not-for-profit. I’ve seen quite a few pull back on their presence (just a news feed of links).
@barbarakb @atrupar Great point...
It would be nice for that to be the case; however, in practice, it's not going to work that way. There are way too many absolutists on both sides of the circular spectrum. You know, where one end meets the other.
@barbarakb @atrupar Well said...
KimberlyN 
Same here. Mastodon is for conversations. And I believe it can, and should, be an integral part of independent journalism’s social reach in 2023.
@KimberlyN @barbarakb @lednabm @atrupar I remember the early Twitter days. Journalists ignored us then. :)
Sharonbw stands with Minnesota@atrupar
I’m already a subscriber and enjoy it very much.
I’m so glad you’re going to grow your presence here!
Fuck Elon 
You might want to put your mastodon handle on your "about" page. Also, I could not find any information about pricing. I am guessing this will show after you enter your email but I suspect many (I do) will find this off-putting.
ASP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Awsome! You are more than welcome here! 😎
draketoots@atrupar I'm already a subscriber; just wanted to say thanks for your work and encourage your continued contribution to Mastadon!
Bret Carmichael@atrupar Unless journalists start investing genuine effort in other platforms **and** put distance between yourselves and Twitter — as you’ve mentioned in this thread — Elon will continue to impugn you, and Twitter will continue to command engagement for its network effects. The only way to beat it is starvation. When journalists remain at Twitter, there’s no incentive to look elsewhere. And, yes, I know that’s easier said than done with livelihoods on the line.
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor@atrupar Already receiving your newsletter! Glad to see you become more active in the #Fediverse, we need voices like yours here.
Søren Have@atrupar Yet another childish reaction from Musk 😳
Angie@atrupar already a subscriber. Hopefully you will post and interact more here. I miss seeing how your kids are doing. 😀
Touaregtweet@atrupar You should change that to Mastodon ... (or at least add your Mastodon username )
TVNRed@atrupar so much for free speech absolutism
jeff@atrupar saw this and followed. we "book people" welcome you ;))
Les Tombé@atrupar Glad to see you posting here! Bring more reporters with you here from twitter - leave that megalomaniac creep running twitter alone with the people foolish enough to pay money to help bail him out finance-wise and ego-wise.
JeffOwnby@atrupar your newsletter confirmation page promotes your Twitter account but doesn't have anything about your Mastodon account. Maybe you can change that?
Lady Gee@atrupar should have done this from day one. Better late than never I guess 😑
@atrupar already done. Just followed you over from Twitter. That place...jfc.
Alex Galt 🧄@atrupar I'm glad for it. Your twitter feed is one of a few that I continue to return to twitter to read.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@atrupar (Why only today?)
busta kitten@atrupar "it would be nice if they would at least just leave progressive creators and journalists alone."
Theres the liberal approach to fascism in a nutshell
LEAVE TWITTER YOU COWARD
Laffy@atrupar Btw, I’m following you on Post, too, but I have to say, I much prefer it here.
@GottaLaff @atrupar I wanted to like Post.news. I truly did. But no one is there any more and those who are only post about angry politics. Here at Mastodon, there’s much more than politics.
@barbarakb For me it was the format. They even gave me a verified account on Post, which Twitter refused to do because I use a pseudonym, but that’s not a big enough draw for me. I really prefer microblogging and quick replies, convos, rather than one long blog to wade through. @atrupar
@GottaLaff @atrupar yes, another excellent point about Post.news. Too much to wade through. Plus, too much content repeats.
Giraffe Slava 🇺🇸🇺🇦@atrupar he’s playing every journalist for suckers. Too many are willing to play his game.
Al (not AI) Sparkman@atrupar One day? That’ll show him…
mtsw@atrupar why stay at all? What makes you think things will get better? I think the sooner people admit that it's hopeless over there the sooner we can move on to building whatever's next
SpicewallaI think a lot of people still on twitter are coping with sunk cost bias.
It is viscerally painful to have all the work you've put in over the years be eroded, if not outright destroyed, by a petulant little goblin born with a silver spoon up his ass
The right response is fury, but that also comes with admitting your own impotence and nobody likes to feel powerless. On the upside the fediverse lets people take power for themselves in a way that none of the corporate systems can
MidLifeBroad@atrupar perhaps you should consider quitting the platform.
Kevin Leecaster@GreenFire @atrupar I quit the day it became Musky.
@MidLifeBroad @atrupar
I quit the day I got banned for calling a Republican senator an insurrectionist and that was under Jack. #J6 really should have been enough of a wake-up call for everyone that we needed to build a safer platform to protect democracy from with the benefit of hindsight imo.
I quit the day I got banned for calling a Republican senator an insurrectionist and that was under Jack. #J6 really should have been enough of a wake-up call for everyone that we needed to build a safer platform to protect democracy from with the benefit of hindsight imo.
@GreenFire @atrupar agreed. I like it here so much better. No one person or company owns it.
Mustrideorski@atrupar - thank you.
Patrick Ross@atrupar really hoping you move to using mastodon regularly. Your tweets are one of the things I miss most from Twitter.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
LeaBug@atrupar come full time to Mastodon. We love you!!
ZZ Bottom
Gina@atrupar Why not leave for good? Twitter is just ridiculously bad now.
Nandor 🏳️🌈@atrupar Do it! Or just ... leave Twitter.
Auntie Denier@atrupar Hope to see your video threads here. I miss them!
David from Nashville ✅@atrupar - his snowflake ego has no bounds. He's failed his way to the top.
Tom von Alten@atrupar I remember when I dumped my account at the beginning of the end and I thought about the dozens of tweets I'd embedded in my blog over the years, and screencapping them or something. Decided "meh." It's a lost cause. Sunk cost. Lesson in hubris.
toxtethogrady@atrupar
I posted this elsewhere and wanted to boost the signal. The shareholders' meeting is May 15 and there is a shareholders' proposal on the agenda:
"5. A stockholder proposal regarding reporting on key-person risk, if properly presented (“Proposal Five”)."
As expected, Management opposes this, because no one is allowed to question #elonmusk 's sanity.
#Tesla #elonmusk
Send me all evidence in support of this proposal, especially evidence from his management of #Twitter
I posted this elsewhere and wanted to boost the signal. The shareholders' meeting is May 15 and there is a shareholders' proposal on the agenda:
"5. A stockholder proposal regarding reporting on key-person risk, if properly presented (“Proposal Five”)."
As expected, Management opposes this, because no one is allowed to question #elonmusk 's sanity.
#Tesla #elonmusk
Send me all evidence in support of this proposal, especially evidence from his management of #Twitter
Catherine is not complacent@atrupar Ego Must has the emotional maturity of a three year old who ate a candy bar and is up an hour past their bed time. Chaotic energy with no direction.
Cosmic Ray
Louis Couture@atrupar so much for freedom of speech