#TwitterMigration #FollowBack #PayItForward

Good morning new followers and welcome to #Mastodon!

You might have noticed that I already followed you back.

Why do that? Am I crazy? Well, yes, but that's incidental.

And I'm not just being polite.

I followed you back because I'm greedy. I want all your awesome, interesting posts and boosts to fill my Home timeline.

This is the "algorithm" at Mastodon. This is how it works.

And you can do the same thing. You might make some new friends too.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's mouse patent

(Excuse the 1995 html)

http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/09.html

⚠️ Mastodon.lol going offline for an upgrade in 20 minutes! Expect 2-3 hours downtime and then 99.999% uptime forever*

*not guaranteed

News from the #PowerShell team: PowerShell 7.3 General Availability

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-7-3-general-availability/

I give twitter two weeks until it collapses into a nonfunctioning mess. A massive data breach will likely occur within 4 weeks.

“I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers,” a former employee said. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/