Mike Laursen

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Show threadMike LaursenNov 21, 2022
I don’t think so. I have an account on TRUTH Social, and it doesn’t look like Mastodon. It is very much, though, a clone of Twitter.
Mike LaursenNov 21, 2022
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Nov 20, 2022

Meet Eugen Rochko (@Gargron), founder of @Mastodon, who just got a profile in TIME magazine. I encourage you to really read the entire excellent interview, bc not only will you learn more about the ethos behind Mastodon, but you can also hear what it’s like for an intelligent human being to talk about social media.

“Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media.”

https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/

Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindication

Time
Mike LaursenNov 21, 2022
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️Nov 21, 2022
One of my favorite lines in the early Buddhist texts comes from the Upaddha Sutta, where the Buddha says, "Admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life."
Show threadMike LaursenNov 20, 2022
It would be interesting to do a fork of Mastodon that bridges the gap between Mastodon and Twitter. Ability to scale to traffic levels that would break Mastodon, do e-commerce, content moderation mechanisms, show ads or charge users to help support the huge cost of Twitter-scale traffic. (Yes, and even make a profit. Many in Mastodon culture seem to view that as evil.) But still having a gateway to Mastodon content via the Fediverse.
Show threadMike LaursenNov 20, 2022
@hrheingold I do have to admit that Facebook Groups are pretty useful. (Much more useful and pleasant than the general Facebook feed, which can be dreadful.) I belong to deeply useful groups that bring together secular homeschoolers in my very red state, parents of ADHD and autistic kids, owners of VW EuroVan campers…
Mike LaursenNov 20, 2022
And then the improvisation brilliantly circled around to the theme, after exploring imaginative variations on its structure? No? That’s probably what they musicians thought they were doing. 🙃🎷🎺🥁
Mike LaursenNov 20, 2022
Tea PainNov 20, 2022
Politics ain’t nothin’ but horse sense. Horse sense is what a horse has that keeps him from bettin’ on people.
Show threadMike LaursenNov 20, 2022
Unions are no panacea. Any entity that has the power to protect you has the power to exploit you.
Show threadMike LaursenNov 20, 2022
@ifilljustice Packing the court is short-term thinking. If Party A packs the court, Party B can turn around pack it some more next time they are in power.
Mike LaursenNov 20, 2022
Michael StancliftNov 15, 2022
Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”