While I'm getting this thing up and running, here's a little about me:

I'm an associate professor (teaching) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), where I teach philosophy, religious studies, and interdisciplinary humanities courses.

I generally post on topics relating to comparative ethics, globally engaged philosophy of religion, Wittgenstein, China, and music.

And here's a link to my site: sites.google.com/view/thomasdcarroll/

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

Currently Masto.host is experiencing the highest volume of traffic that has ever reached the infrastructure.

The service is partially degraded and I will be doing fast upgrades on the platform.

These can lead to partial downtime, errors and large delays in support requests.

Really sorry. Doing the best I can on my end. Hope you understand. Thanks.