Joel Saklad

@JoelSaklad
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Public radio and national parks enthusiast working in voter outreach. Techie. MPA. DC by way of San Antonio. he/him 🌈✡️🇺🇸
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"Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother," reads a tweet from
@[email protected]. This is factually untrue, but because more “left-leaning” accounts voted on the contextual note, the note is suppressed & Twitter says it “needs more ratings.” https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-twitter-birdwatch-community-notes-misinformation-politics/

Honestly moving to Mastodon from the bird site feels like I just switched to PBS after years of exclusively watching a reality TV show called, I don't know, EXTREME HATEFEST: ORGY ISLAND or something.

Like, yeah, of course it's going to be a little jarring but trust me it's better this way.

This is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything until I delete it.
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
Using Mastodon, Hive, and Post.news at the same time and I really hope that Mastodon continues to improve discoverability between servers and adds quote reblogs. Wonder how an equivalent Twitter Spaces or live-streaming feature could work in a federated environment as well…