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Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: https://mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

@copdeb @Mellis107 Really great album. IMO their 3 best albums are Once, Dark Passion Play and Endless Forms which is nice because you get a great album for each singer 🙂
@mlawton @Pc_Prit He's not our best player but he is absolutely my favourite

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

@LadySG SwissRamble on The Other Place is a great source for deepdives into club accounts, looking at his thread from #LFC 2021 accounts he has them at £167m net debt. I don't know what the etiquette is for sharing links from 'over there' here but happy to DM you a link to the thread if you're interested?
Interesting analysis of how things are getting tricky for Twitter in terms of system reliability - echoes a conversation I had over the weekend.. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

MIT Technology Review
@EmmaKennedy Big #LFC fan here!
@Gargron How are you finding it? I love DT but I must admit I tend to prefer his heavier stuff. It's a nice album but I don't think it'll ever be my favourite of his. The bonus disc has some fun heavier cuts on though