Teri Kanefield
Ken WhiteI continue to be mystified by the sentiment that being a First Amendment advocate means *socially* tolerating people I find obnoxious or contemptible. I keep getting “what kind of free speech advocate blocks people?” The kind who doesn’t deal with assholes when not professionally compelled to do so. The First Amendment isn’t a hair shirt.
WaltCorey
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retired software architect, pilot, avid politics wonk, traveler still working on avid part! husband, dad, granddad, Tesla/Prius/Geothermal climate owner.
I've also been working against the rage machine. (I told people in 2020 that the Georgia machines were secure. I was actually doing voter protection work in Georgia.)
I told people in 2021 that the DOJ would investigate Trump's crimes but given how investigations work, we wouldn't see it for a while.
People often ask me to talk them off the ledge or put the latest outrage into perspective.
The better solution is for people to stay off the ledge.
Right?
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Rod HiltonMy favorite negative comment (surprisingly few except on Twitter from Elon simps) through yesterday's viral blowup was:
"he just whines on a platform no one uses" from reddit
My guy, over the course of the day my post got 14K favorites, 10k boosts, and I gained 3k followers, 5x my follower count amassed on Twitter from 14 years of usage.
I made almost the exact same post 2 months ago on Twitter and it got 3 likes.
Twitter *is* the platform no one uses. It's inactive accounts and bots.
BTW Elon, that Rube Goldberg design you can't understand but everyone like me has had to explain in a 45-minute System Design job interview?
That's why it worked after you disconnected one of the more sensitive server racks.
That's why we design shit like this. If we could deploy it to a single machine so you could understand it AND it would be resilient to random failures, we'd be doing it that way.
Sheril KirshenbaumIn recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.
Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.
It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration
Benjamin WittesWell done, folks.
.@[email protected] have you seen this? someone projected this on Twitter HQ a few hours ago. 😆
Source: r/bayarea https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/yp9l0w/elon_seems_to_have_no_concept_of_free_speech_so/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/theinnersunset/status/1589863539921276928
Hello Mastodon!
This is already looking better than Elon's Folly!
Jerry LevineKEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!
Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?
Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.
Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).
So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!
But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!
OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!
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