Aaron Russell

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Musician, cyclist, technical writer.
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@mozilla just announced they are joining the #fediverse  

"In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social"

they will start with Mastodon, but are "looking forward to working on the challenges that crosscut the Fediverse"

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ #FediNews

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

ICYMI: A call for pedantry in free speech debates and for separating Free Speech Rights, Free Speech Culture, And Speech Decency.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-pedantry

In Defense Of Free Speech Pedantry

Why You Should Clarify Which Free Speech Value You’re Debating

The Popehat Report
My kid’s teacher made toys for her class based on their drawings.
Pay teachers more
Came to Mastodon to boost subscribers in the wake of Twitter's new policies, will stay for the rest.
Absolutely mind blowing how nakedly desperate you have to be to make your social media platform the only one that flat out bans users for posting links to other social media platforms or linktree. It telegraphs 1) that you are losing so many users that you're in really serious trouble and 2) you're too arrogant and ignorant to realize that this policy, if enacted, is going to just obliterate the tattered user base you have left
When you need your mom to come and defend your blatantly asinine hypocritical anti-free speech policy...
Cycling a hilly clay section of Old Magnolia Road, Miccosukee, Florida. It's places like this that make #randonneuring in the Tallahassee area so wonderful.

This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.