ian 🇵🇭

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okay i think this is my forever profile for real. seattleite turned new yorker turned future londoner. i comment on tech and sociopolitical topics. very much left wing and anti-cryptocurrency
bloghttps://redbluemagenta.com
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twitterhttps://twitter.com/merc248
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Show threadian 🇵🇭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
Show threadian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022
@harshad unrelated, what’s your costs looking like so far for everything? thinking about standing up my own instance. might use GCS or something for object storage myself
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

Show threadian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022
@BlackAzizAnansi this count? https://youtu.be/D30u9m-nEoo
Show threadian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022
@estarla i’m new to it too! i’m learning as well, and found that it’s been nice engaging directly w folks, more so than how it is on twitter - but yeah, i mean, it was also the case on early twitter for a while until it gained critical mass and cultural cachet, i’m sure the same will happen here in time
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
Show threadian 🇵🇭Nov 7, 2022
@yuhline comedy is OVER
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.