Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

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I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

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Scientists escaping Twitter. https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

We are dealing with so much power concentration in the hands of childish and somewhat incompetent bullies right now around the world. Trump, Putin, Musk, etc. This can’t be a coincidence. I wonder if it is primarily a feature of the political, sociological, technological or economic moment—or a convergence of all four. It’s so relentlessly tiresome and dangerous.