Cranky David

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Refugee from the bird site. Looking for my peeps and some playful snark.
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RIP Kevin Conroy.
Everyone poking fun at Mastodon's UI while Twitter suddenly spawned 1,000 verified Elon's and the Pope is suggesting a holy subscription model.

Back in 2010 #twitter launched their โ€œt.coโ€ link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when theyโ€™re done?

In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you canโ€™t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?

Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.

Mastodon is like IKEA assembly instructions. Daunting at first, but after you finally put it together, you feel like you're Jesus, a bonafide carpenter deserving of followers.
#TwitterMigration
I wrote a little thing about FTC consent decrees, and Twitter, and how all the people who were facing potential criminal charges for not complying with the FTC consent decree quit Twitter last night... and why Elon's not caring about the FTC doesn't much matter if the FTC cares about him... (which it likely does) https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/10/does-twitter-have-any-employees-left-who-remember-that-the-company-is-under-a-strict-consent-decree-with-the-ftc/
Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC?

Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree: Apparently the answer was yes,โ€ฆ

Techdirt
As an October 2022 Mastodon joiner, I am looking at all the November 2022 joiners with suspicion.
@KlasfeldReports thank you so much for adjusting the crossposting. love the content and your dedication to it. ๐Ÿ‘

no algorithm to game here - huge plus.

one aspect: fake accounts are less likely to gain traction. fake accounts are bad anywhere but not amplifying them drastically limits damage.

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Use CWs pls.

But if I choose not CW a post about racism or misogyny, don't police me about it either

I said that in 2019

And it seems to me that new users to #blacktwitter or #Blackmastodon think that they have to do that. You don't

If you're concerning about fellow Blk folks mental health and wanna CW I get that. Do it. But don't hide for white fragility. Forget that

ok, the animated emoji are wild. gonna have to hunt down and get me some. ๐Ÿ˜‚