My feeder has become highly contested territory by my local hummingbirds. Daily fights. But in a rare moment of peace, I snapped this pic.
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Mastodon MigrationPublic Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
Chris Trottier
PwnallthethingsFDA looking at the application for Elon to put microchips in people's brains and then at his Twitter account and then back at the application
Ken WhiteRemember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.
And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.
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Mike Masnick β
I wrote up some thoughts about Sir Tweets-a-lot's birdsite and its whiplash regarding checkmarks and verification. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/09/elon-musk-reinvents-classist-blue-check-system-as-even-more-elitist-grey-checks-then-half-kills-it/
Elonβs Twitter: Classist Blue Check Systemβ¦ Reinvented As Even More Elitist Gray Checks, Goes Live, Then Elon Says Heβs Killed It
I keep pointing out that Twitter was already doing most of what Elon seems to want to do, but he (and his fans) has not quite realized that. Also, while Twitter was often slow in rolling stuff out,β¦
Eugen RochkoHey! Spent all day (technically night) fixing delayed feeds on mastodon.social and mastodon.online, both are back to normal now, I had to add more capacity. There's just so much more activity during peak hours, even with closed registrations! #devops
Erik MoellerThe collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.
System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.
The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3