Editorial Director & Associate Curator at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Co-founder of @FontsInUse and @typographica.
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The flock of bushtits (and their occasional chickadee cohorts) that come through the yard every afternoon is so delightful. A peeping entourage of gently upbeat revelry that is not unexpected in this locale, but always a nice surprise. Like at a popular outdoor bar in some alternate reality where roving frat parties are actually enjoyable to encounter.
Here they are a few months ago at the bath. #birds #birdbathcam
More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.As social networks grew in popularity and influence,
There was once a dream of a decentralised web.
As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.
Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.
Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.
“@naveenpalli @paulg This guy gets it: CEO of Twitter is not a tech position, it's a political one. And one of the most political responsibility in the world. Twitter's problems are moderation, speech, rights, info, access, class, and the differing experiences of those within every country deployed.”
Here's your irregular reminder that:
Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.
Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers
The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.
Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.
And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.
We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.
#Mastodon features #Twitter doesn’t have:
* Temporary muting (e.g. for a day)
* Self-verified URLs in profile
* Hiding spoilers etc. via content warnings
* URLs must start with protocols (fewer false positives, e.g. in code).
* Everyone can edit posts (in v4+).
* Muting someone’s posts and/or boosts (via menu in profile)
* No ads (⇒ donate if you can afford it)
More obscure: You can search for post URLs to “transfer” them between accounts.
An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
Esteban Moro
Anil
Tom Walker
Andrew (Television Executive)
Axel Rauschmayer
Mastodon Migration