John Athayde

@johnathayde
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@johnathayde on Twitter, Instagram, etc. Designer/UX/Developer/Permaculturist/Musician
Runner of Meticulous(.com), Design System junkie, Product Design player-coach and team builder.
Personal sitehttps://www.johnathayde.com
MonikersAka Boboroshi
Workhttps://www.meticulous.com
The Farmhttps://www.sfumatofarm.com
John AthaydeNov 19, 2022
Moving to @johnathayde. Will port this there, but some stuff will remain here (as posts don't move)
John AthaydeNov 19, 2022
Justin PotNov 16, 2022
WIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/
John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
SyfaroNov 18, 2022

I made a tool to export information about your birdsite following, followers, and lists that includes their bio, website, and pinned tweet. Given the current situation, you might want to give it a try!

https://unflwrs.syfaro.com

unflwrs

John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
Tyler KleykampNov 18, 2022
Applying some lessons I learned the hard way working in government and they are (so far) - 1:) Listen and learn as much as you can before you try to “fix” anything 2:) Help one person at a time with a seemingly trivial thing - “sure I can help you with that spreadsheet” or “you can export an outlook calendar to excel!” 3:) “Fix” the things that require the least number of asks of others.
John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
With the onboarding, remember that Twitter wasn't free. You were the product sold to advertisers. Here, there's no ads, so consider helping keep this alive. patreon.com/mastodon
John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
JordiGHNov 18, 2022
OH: Twitter feed has a very "Last transmission of a research base in the Antarctic that just took in a stray husky" vibe
John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
Richard LittlerNov 18, 2022
People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
Show threadChris TrottierNov 18, 2022

UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.

We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.

By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.

John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
ploumNov 18, 2022

Each new generation on the web needs to learn that there’s no such thing as a permanent web identity on a commercial web service.

The only long-term solution to maintain your identity is:
1. your own domain name
2. Your own website/blog
3. Several backups

Everything else is temporary. Your accounts on myspace, facebook, medium, twitter, google plus, youtube, tiktok, mastodon will one day disappear or become useless.

You don’t have a "community" on those websites. Only ephemeral discussions.

John AthaydeNov 18, 2022
Luke LeBrunNov 18, 2022

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.