If you are in Canada, you should participate in this survey on a potential digital Canadian dollar and make our voices heard:
https://bit.ly/3M6znYu
#DigitalCanadianDollar
https://bit.ly/3M6znYu
#DigitalCanadianDollar
@ChenHank on the bird site.
Hank Chen
@hankchen
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Data scientist @beatdapp combating fraud in music streaming. Ph.D. in psychological and brain sciences. Born and raised in Taiwan. Living in Canada now.
@ChenHank on the bird site.
@ChenHank on the bird site.
David SlifkaEasy to miss in Mastodon's latest update, but the most-requested features are indeed coming "soon:"
"...quote posts, improved content and profile search, and groups. We’re also continuously working on improving content and profile discovery, onboarding, and of course our extensive set of moderation tools, as well as removing friction from decentralized features. Keep a lookout for these updates soon."
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon
Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge. To make this step easier, we now have a default sign-up option that works with a server we operate. If you wish to leave or join a different server, you can do so at any time.
Lesley Carhart 
Twitter will absolutely 100% continue to follow this pattern of arbitrary, emotional, and societally impactful content suppression as long as you give them the power to get away with it, even for 24 hours. I don’t know why people have any illusion it’s otherwise.
It’s why I left. It’s why I refuse to give them that power over me, even for a minute.
Judd LegumTwitter is limiting functionality for any tweets that link to Substack URLs. This comes just days after Substack rolled out Notes, a product that could compete with Twitter.
Musk appears to be making Twitter worse for users to enact retribution against potential competitors.
Tara C. Smith 
Equatorial Guinea's 1st outbreak of #Marburg continues to grow, spreading over a wide geographic area with potentially undetected chains of transmission, @WHO said.
Equatorial Guinea reported 9 confirmed cases, with 7 confirmed deaths since early February. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/marburg-outbreak-grows-with-concerning-geographic-spread-in-equatorial-guinea/
NetBlocksℹ Confirmed: Twitter is currently experiencing international slowdowns and outages affecting many users, also impacting image and video content; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
ℹ️ Note: Twitter is experiencing international outages affecting website, mobile app and features including posting and retweeting; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
This is just a friendly reminder that for those of you still on the bird site, turning off recommended tweets might be better for your sanity.
Tyler FisherI wrote my first blog post in six months about how I'm weaning myself off of streaming services. I've built myself a music server using Roon, which allows me to slowly buy the music I love instead of streaming it without going cold turkey. Read about how I did it here: https://www.tylerjfisher.com/blog/post/2022/12/26/how-and-why-im-weaning-myself-off-streaming-services
Adam WilbertOne of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.
With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:
EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent