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Erin Kissane Apr 30, 2023

I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

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Erin Kissane Apr 30, 2023

People looking for a more neutral take on the state of various networks will probably get a lot out of this writeup from @mmasnick:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

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@kissane @mmasnick Mike Masnick puts lot of faith in the promises of Bluesky CEO Jay Graber to clean up their ToS. I hope that he continues to monitor this situation. People put a lot of credence behind his recommendations.

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