Mastodawn

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

like, so you gonna ban all the instances listed on the official site or what? the ones that have specific guarantees around moderation and grace periods for account cancellation? weird but okay

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

seems kind of weird that people announce that they don’t accept follow requests from some of the more popular instances until people “get gud”, i get people want to protect themselves somehow but feels weirdly gatekeeper-y when there’s already a high barrier to entry to begin with

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

i think the next challenge is to see whether gen z thinks this is a cool platform or not (prob not… but maybe that’s okay?)

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

Andrew Randall 🇺🇦Nov 7, 2022

Looks like @[email protected] is right - the wall is coming tumbling down

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/

RT @[email protected]

I have made the decision to leave Twitter.👋

At this time I am convinced that this platform is no longer safe for me, or my community. I do not intend on contributing any more content at this time.

The health of the greater "we" is more important than the smaller "me".

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/krisnova/status/1589581035792388096

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

off to go to my local. it's great having local community both here in NYC and also somewhat online here as well on mastodon. wherever you all are, cheers

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

pamela

Nov 6, 2022

Just a thought, directed to the wrong people, but anyone who professes to want to be supportive and better understand the experience of marginalized folks and make things easier for them would be really well-served and probably learn a lot by listening and incorporating the local culture/etiquette tips being flung around, which are literally telling you what works.

If you want the fun culture tips as well, we will teach you, and create new with you. But the CW and checking profiles for preferences about contact and stuff IS supporting marginalized folks, that's where those customs came from and we finesse the heck out of them regularly.

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794 - fucking awful that zuck's decision to make some 90's ass VR solution with no legs is basically going to cost many people their jobs. good one assholes

Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Social-media company’s planned cuts expected to affect many thousands of its workforce

The Wall Street Journal

ian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022

Taylor Lorenz Nov 6, 2022

Large scale layoffs at Meta start next week, possibly as soon as Wednesday https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794 #technology #tech #technews #facebook #meta #Metavetse

Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Social-media company’s planned cuts expected to affect many thousands of its workforce

The Wall Street Journal

ian 🇵🇭Nov 6, 2022

it’s *somewhat* tempting to try to move once again to a smaller instance, but, i’m not wanting to move to an instance that’s just for tech workers, or just for socialists, or whatever else. i’ve always felt like i never really fit in w specific interest groups anyway - perhaps after i move to the UK and start earning £, i’ll run my own instance instead. we’ll see

ian 🇵🇭Nov 6, 2022

Taylor Lorenz Nov 6, 2022

Twitter is now begging some employees who Musk laid off to come back.

Some were apparently laid off by “mistake,” others were let go before management realized that their experience was crucial to build the new features Musk envisions. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back #tech #technology #news #media #journalist #elon #twittermi #twitterefugee

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