Will someone please square this logic for me? Now that I've landed and poked around, I've found a server to which I'd like to move.
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Fuck Elon Musk
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Arvind NarayananAlgorithms aren't the enemy. Chronological feeds don't scale and the signal-to-noise ratio will plummet if this ever gets popular. The real problems with today's algorithmic feeds are non-transparency, lack of choice, and optimizing for engagement instead of healthy discourse.
Open-source is a perfect opportunity to fix all this. Have there been any efforts to create a Mastodon instance with a (community governed) ranking algorithm? Is that technically feasible? Or is the idea simply anathema?
An option to see what the hot discussions are exists on many platforms for a reason. Being able to at least toggle between recent and hot posts would be delightful!
Mastodon notification settings question. In both the website and in iOS app settings, I've set it to NOT notify me when a post is favorited or reblogged. However, I continue to get those notifications everywhere. Am I missing something?
God 
I haven’t seen an exodus like this since, well, Exodus. And Elon Musk reminds Me a lot of the pharaoh of Egypt. Just another repugnant, spoiled-brat trust-fund baby whose father made a lot of money through forced labor.
#twittermigration
#twittermigration
Michael Zimmer"Twitter’s copyright strike system appears to be broken.Naturally, one user took this as an opportunity to post the entire The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie in a series of two-minute clips spanning nearly 50 tweets."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/19/23468340/twitters-copyright-strike-system-appears-to-be-broken
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/19/23468340/twitters-copyright-strike-system-appears-to-be-broken
Twitter’s copyright strike system appears to be broken. - The Verge
Naturally, one user took this as an opportunity to post the entire The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie in a series of two-minute clips spanning nearly 50 tweets. The thread has been up for almost a whole day now, and the fact that it hasn't been taken down yet is a likely side effect of the hundreds of employees who resigned from Twitter earlier this week.
Tofu Golem@jayrosen_nyu @adamdavidson
Journalists didn't just get lazy. They failed as watchdogs on the powerful. Profoundly.
The "he said/she said" reporting without fact-checking allowed lies to spread like wildfire.
The constant "but both sides" arguments normalized extremism.
Chief TWiT 
I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
Musk reinstated Trump on Twitter, so I've deleted the app. Fuck that to the sun and back.