Today on #LivingThroughIt: Florida Voter Protection Lead for St. John's County Toby Gialluca, on the horrifying threat of Ron DeSantis, protecting voting sites from violence, and why it's so critical that we start preparing for 2024 right now.

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For those of you who are not on Facebook, by popular demand I have downloaded my Musk Twitter teach-in series onto YouTube. All that I have predicted so far has come to fruition. Listen to why restructuring/bankruptcy or sale of company is next.

For those who are hearing impaired, there is also a transcript option. https://youtu.be/BKLhY_d0dJk

Just published my final blog of 2022, covering why I've mostly jumped ship from the bird site for personal and professional reasons. "When Your Social Media Marketing Site Becomes Untenable."

#socialmediamarketing #digitalmarketing #editing #freelancing #networking #TwitterMigration

https://pamelabarroway.com/2022/12/11/when-your-social-media-marketing-site-becomes-untenable/

Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.

I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:

Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.

let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!

And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.

#FediTips

In light of this, I really don't see how anyone can ever expect to feel safe on Twitter again. Suspended accounts were suspended for good and often frightening reasons.

Just locked my account for good.

Apple took down all its tweets last night. Sunday, their head of Apple Apps deleted his Twitter account.

If Apple takes Twitter out of their App Store, Musk would be unable to sell verified accounts or any other services. This is devastating for Musk because he is counting on those to make up for all the advertisers who pulled out.

We are truly on Musk Twitter watch!

I wrote about why it's time to quit Twitter.

https://newsletterwithecm.substack.com/p/getting-clean-from-twitter