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Me: alright, before this meeting starts, I want everyone to go pee. I don’t care if you don’t feel it, you need to try.
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@garius I keep thinking about the above thread about customers and trust and how it most definitely applies to the employees as well.
I'm guessing that of the people who have agreed to stay, many/most of them no longer trust Twitter as an employer but can't leave immediately without another job lined up. Those people have agreed to "hardcore" but are also job searching.
Twitter is going to have an employee retention problem AND a hiring problem for a long time.
Jeff Haluska@jesseliberty I say it won't happen. It'll go the way of myspace, still around but a shell of it's former self.
@Moke Though maybe this is the cheapest way the far right could think of to build themselves a social network 😂
@Moke I hope not. I'm imagining him owning something like myspace when this is all over. Everyone is surprised when they find out it still exists.
HollieHEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.
Why? 
Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!
All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.
But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.
If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. 
@Moke I think seeing such startling negative effects follow so swiftly will help prevent this kind of behavior from spreading quickly.
I once worked at a place that was bought out and the new owners made some early moves that lost the trust of the employees. Some left as soon as they could, others hung in there a bit longer, but everyone was looking for the exits.
The turnover happened so fast that a few months after I left they were contacting me to find out how to do a deployment.
irwinIf some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.