@tom4okstate @matthewsweet

It's the nature of the scientific method to try and disprove every hypothesis to test its validity. But it's worthless without some kind of counter-argument or evidence.

@mmasnick @bramus

Oddly it's very hard if you want to go through someone on another server's follows and follow some subset of them. But it's super easy to follow people on other servers that you see because they've been boosted by or replied to someone you follow, replied to you, followed you, favorited one of your posts, etc.

Thus it's probably a good idea to boost posts from anyone you might want your followers to follow because it makes it much easier to do so.

@thornbill9 @davetroy @shoq @tchambers @jeffjarvis @dangillmor

Seems easy enough to me. Just start with a few follows and then when they boost something from someone that looks interesting, click on their handle and click the follow button to follow them too. Similarly when you're reading through replies. Pretty soon you've got a nice curated feed going.

@kegill @lauren @chrismessina

I think this could fit into Mastodon easily enough. I imagine one or more instances that are dedicated to law enforcement, emergency services, etc. and which verify all their accounts. Then add a mechanism to prioritize messages from such instances to ensure they arrive as quickly and reliably as possible.

@mmasnick
I tend to believe there was a deal, but I don't believe for a second that Elon intended to uphold it if it didn't suit him.

I'm sure he figured he could fire all the front-line content moderators and then name a "council" with a few people he could just ignore.

@mmasnick

There's a WaPo article that does seem to comport somewhat with what Elon claimed, although it's easy to argue that Elon was the one that broke the deal first:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/twitter-advertiser-exodus-musk/