Well well, the community manager by default of bird site discovered why some specific rules were in place, managed by those people he fired. Turns out KW was a leopard in the leopard eating people’s faces party and EM got his face eaten for a community problem.
Fuck that site and fuck those guys.
A lot of Mastodon instance admins are either getting their first hosting bill or getting a very increased bill from extreme growth and usage. Some may be experiencing bill shock.
Please make sure your paying/supporting them!
Twitter was free because you were the product. Mastodon doesn't work this way.
Many instances list a patreon or donation links on their about page.
So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.
I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.
I regret to inform you that I inadvertently purchased a bar of dark chocolate, bit into it and threw the rest away.
Carry on.
Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.
The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.
Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
“At SpaceX, we're told we can change the world. I couldn't, however, stop getting sexually harassed.
From the man who brought you TITS U, I present SpaceX: an environmentally irresponsible company so rife with sexism, the only remedy is for women to leave.”
‘At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”’
https://www.lioness.co/post/at-spacex-work-was-taken-away-from-me-in-case-i-might-retire-or-die
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold. By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceX I have watched the recent news about the takeover at Twitter without much surprise. I was an employee of one of Elon Musk’s other companies; for many months, I’ve refrained from speaking about my experience there
Rewatched Somos on Netflix. A dramatization of the massacre in Allende Mexico by the Zeta cartel, but kicked off by careless work by the US Drug Enforcement Agency. The story revolves around multiple regular innocent citizens who get caught in events. If you haven’t heard of the massacre, ProPublica has you covered. And if you have Netflix, at least in the US, it’s worth seeing what your tax dollars go to.
https://www.propublica.org/article/allende-zetas-cartel-massacre-and-the-us-dea
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