Well the functionality of Twitter has been strangled this afternoon, Australian time.

So poking my head back in here.

Cannot retrieve tweets at this time and being accused of being a spam account there.

Way to go, Elon #twitterdown

Saw that a good way to wrangle Mastadon is to follow hashtags directly, but that's done from the web itself rather than apps? I'll figure that out on laptop later tonight #wholenewworld
@paulmeekperth if you see a hashtag you wish to follow, at least in my app I can click on it, then in the next page click on the +human icon, and viola.
@paulmeekperth some apps support, it some don't. For Android, I know Tusky does.
@paulmeekperth yes you can follow hashtags when accessing from Web not app
@paulmeekperth positively spectacular isn't it
@wyvernsrose there's a difference between sludgy latency and broken systems cos you fired all the experts, and actively burning the house down and chasing your users away 😆
@paulmeekperth oh absolutely the only shame is the way he did it there is nothing to watch burn
@wyvernsrose Tesla stock (the only company he has public still) is gonna tank on Monday if there isn't a hail mary miracle overnight 😆
@paulmeekperth BEAUTIFUL! you couldn't plan it better if you tried
@paulmeekperth @wyvernsrose I know we are all rightly peeved, but his remaining advertisers must be apocalyptic.
@JulieMarshall @paulmeekperth I don't know I spent the last 6 months blocking them all

@JulieMarshall @wyvernsrose genius move

He's basically squashed the site the last 24 hours as finally as that submersible in the Atlantic

@paulmeekperth @JulieMarshall

my feeds are still operating on facebook and technically twitter as those accounts don't view anything...

but I think I might suspend my service for a bit and maybe even consider whether or not I want to build new services

it seems governments are beginning to fill gaps... it costs me money to run, and I don't have the income I did to be able to just throw a bit at it

None if it generates income mostly personal projects... I slowed them alot after the social media defamation case for Dylan Voller

@paulmeekperth @JulieMarshall its just starting to seem insane to fork out for something that fundraises for research and educates as a pensioner doing it solo when people are monetising simplistic and harmful
@paulmeekperth I can’t see new tweets as of around 4pm can’t comment on tweets I can see and can’t dm 🤬 rate limit again but 👋
@vsky711 I think the whole system got fritzed about that time onwards
@paulmeekperth I honestly wish he just burns twitter to the ground
@xyrer he actually may have this time 😬