It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.
It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.
You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.
With all of us.
Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.
Be here now.
It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.
You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.
With all of us.
Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.
Be here now.
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Helen Shaw (Athena Media )
•Jim Parsons
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maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #data #governance
This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.
#my2cents
@klonick@davew@craignewmark@jeffjarvis@daphnehk@qjurecic@blaine @@profcarroll
💙 I Bleed Blue 💙
•Dangerangel
•Dirk Hohndel
•Fraize :verified:
•The Evaporated Kid
•Robin
•JD Striker
•Dave
•It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️
•Mark Atwood
•CurlyCait
•Jason Brooks :fedora:
•MostlyTato
•The twitter cross posts without any CW I already find annoying. I want to see them myself, but I can see why many users don't, especially political posts.
I often want to boost them but don't because they lack a CW.
As for my own posts, I'm still getting a feel for it.
Cecilia
•Brian Transplant
•British Tech Guru
•Suzanne Stephens
•ClaireFromYVR
•Zach Weigl̙̙̝̬and
•Julé Cunningham
•Alex
•hugoballs
•Wyrd by Word
•Rocky 💜💙
•Feeling like a speck sometimes, but then the feeling passes.
Danielle DelBalso
•TheTariqM
•Chris L
•RabbitPellets
•Sammie Rae Stephens
•Michael Godowns
•bigsamol
•Jensen 🦇
•Audra
•Dennis Faucher :donor: :mastodon:
•Lee Fife
•I'm not fond of twitter folks spewing their tweets here without mastodon engagement ...
God :verified:
•Evan Prodromou
•MrCopilot
•Helena Rigby
•Ian
•And around and around it goes
Evan Prodromou
•What does?
mots
•Jessi Minter
•Evan Prodromou
•LVN2DRM
•emma 🏳️⚧️ΘΔ🦊| trans power
•Strange Tim
•Don Melton
•Blank :verified:
•The Bear (Stephen Rodda)
•James Vincent 🏳️🌈🏴
•DavidMiller
•stux⚡
•c i g a r e t t e 🚬
•Paul Bradish
•Anti-MAGA Glitterbomb
•3nzof3rrari3
•Karen Strickholm
•WeaverWoman
•Bruce Mirken
•MiiGuy
•shanen
•Hard to discuss such deep topics with small character limits, but my basic position is that costs must be covered for the system to be sustainable, but as long as they are covered, then why not offer any feature enough people are willing to pay for? Kind of a charity thing.
A #CSB (Charity Share Brokerage) for adding features and covering ongoing-costs?
Arnel Šarić Sharan :verified:
•fonsjanssen
•Condalmo
•Sam Swaine
•Simon Dodd
•Evan Prodromou
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)
1971 book by Richard Alpert
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Grant Williams
•Nick@NorthLondon
•I just closed my Bird account and started again.
I like my new handle.
SmoothJyzz
•Rachel Maria
•Downes 🍁
•stoicmike
•Derek Piazza 🤓
•Ems_Jane
•Karin Sorenby
•MogulGrind
•ራስ ባሪያው Rass Bariaw
•Rob A
•palmdoc
•Jen McCulley :verified:
•Kenny Herzog
•Evan Prodromou
•https://www.movetodon.org/
Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
www.movetodon.orgKenny Herzog
•Evan Prodromou
•Kenny Herzog
•Nicole
•This is why i do what i do here, i did not want to do it on other tools.
I talk mostly about how to make compost at home to garden ourselves.
Nice to meet you.
Patty
•Ben Aveling
•If someone gets value out of just lurking, that's fine too.
Sue McBean 🌿
•katie
•danbri
•mungus
•Em :official_verified:
•The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖
•Phil Wood
•Tykayn
•alec #GTTO
•(HT the eu for actually doing so…)
Evan Prodromou
•cyclespup
•Dig for them....
sxg
•Matt Stanhope
•Just The Doodle
•Bellezza_one
•L’Etat C’est Moi
•Tom Hallam
•Scrafford
•DaveyComments
•charles webster baer
•D E P O P U L A T I O N I S M
Rumblegrass jones
•Packet Loss
•Dark Flame Master
•😜
William Canna-bass
•Anita Wilcox
•G
•Trent Raber
•rfrazier20161
•francine
•Stormcrow
•Mike Kiss
•m3w35
•Gotta get involved.
DrALJONES
•And, pleeease, ppl reposting twitter links, pleeeease stop.
Post screenshots if you must, but not links.
It feeds the psychopathic parasites, &, if we click on your post, so do we.
#AusPol #UKPol #USPol #CaPol etc
FishMom2022
•lisawilliams
•Bunny Wigglesworth
•Evan Prodromou
•Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsclimate voter/eco leftist
•Progessive Liberal
•DougN :coffeev: 😷 :CApride:
•1anniem
•Nora Burns
•tobie
•Alaric
•Rohan
•The fact that its fully community driven and based on some very unique concepts of web3, are very interesting
Susan
•Ben Bradley
•Malintent
•Evan Prodromou
•We just need you to put your time and attention here, not there.
Jerreco45
•AlgoCompSynth by znmeb
•addie
•ChrisC101
•Zombie Pirate Gator 🐊
•I was always of the opinion at the birdsite that if I talked, you had to listen. You were my captive audience.
Here, I accept it as a privilege if people exchange with me and I regard it as a privilege to be an acceptable interaction with others.
Adam Bennett 🧬
•Jayarava
•Melinda
•originlbookgirl
•logienick
•@SturdyAlex
@jonsopel
@maitlis
@rorystewartuk
I'm kinda with @evan here... Please take the plunge and fully engage here on Mastodon: Your great content and incisive opinions are becoming sullied by Musk’s toxic site.
Jonas Wittwer
•Enby Marzipan
•Ronald T. Dump
•Ernesto Morilla Campos
•damianooldoni
•Evan Prodromou
•https://cosocial.ca/ #CoSocialCa
Cosocial.ca – Canada's Mastodon co-op
cosocial.caEvan Prodromou reshared this.
Brian Hawthorne
•BadWolfLil
•StuartB
•That's not what I'm interested in, it's not to bad if they adapt posts for each services quirks (that's what I used to do before binning Twitter), but exactly the same content when half of a post makes no sense here (or worse, sends us to the other place!)...
riscy
•Evan Prodromou
•Chris Doc Strange ☑️ 🇪🇺⚧️✌️📻🎥📚
•AlgoCompSynth by znmeb
•🌈 ✨ toob friend mex 🌈 ✨
•Brennen kinch
•Evan Prodromou
•Brennen kinch
•Evan Prodromou
•Have you noticed the cultural norms of #CapitalizedHashTags and alt text on images on Mastodon?
Brennen kinch
•Callista Graves
•Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
•Feija
•(Jouw berichten linken <90% naar Twitter, dat is voor je mastodonvolgers vrij irritant, ivm berichten zonder context of retweets waarvoor je toch weer naar daar moet)
Whit🍄
•Evan Prodromou
•Just Matthew 🙏
•Mastodon feels friendlier and more pro-social yet also a little 'bunkered'. I'll be honest, I have not put a great deal of time into it. That's not a reflection of the protocol or even my experience.
I'm a Brit with an internationalist mindset who acts locally. After the Brexit wars and Trumpism I'm a bit wary of social media in general. Things are friendlier here, mistakes pointed out less than jumped on, and (by design - I'm told) less viral. I guess you would know?
I'm also dealing with unfortunate circumstances that make me want to spend more time locally with face to face than on computers.
The people squatting handles, the refugees who didn't see the picture;: merely grabbed for something shiny when they thought Elin would sink the other ship .. well, they'll get it or they won't.
It will happen or it won't, and if it doesn't it doesn't, that will tell us something. That may not be a nice something. People so brainwashed by mass media, steer... show more
Mastodon feels friendlier and more pro-social yet also a little 'bunkered'. I'll be honest, I have not put a great deal of time into it. That's not a reflection of the protocol or even my experience.
I'm a Brit with an internationalist mindset who acts locally. After the Brexit wars and Trumpism I'm a bit wary of social media in general. Things are friendlier here, mistakes pointed out less than jumped on, and (by design - I'm told) less viral. I guess you would know?
I'm also dealing with unfortunate circumstances that make me want to spend more time locally with face to face than on computers.
The people squatting handles, the refugees who didn't see the picture;: merely grabbed for something shiny when they thought Elin would sink the other ship .. well, they'll get it or they won't.
It will happen or it won't, and if it doesn't it doesn't, that will tell us something. That may not be a nice something. People so brainwashed by mass media, steered be machine learning, and lacking critical thinking that decentralised, anarchic conversation eludes the mass of them?
I hope that's not where it gets to. The anarchic nature of Mastodon and Activity Pub is fundamentally better suited to the world I think we need to build. It requires self-reliance and an ability to envision or envisage something bigger growing from small connections, momentary interactions, a network of networks. It possibly requires a critical mass that has not yet been reached? Or tools not yet developed? Or maybe, maybe it's all here and it's only a matter of when and not if?
I was horrified to see on your timeline a poll asking when people would engage with the 2024 election. The US system is so broken and flawed. Billions spent over half the time a President serves, and FFS the last turd that landed in the punchbowl? Wow. I almost chose not to reply to your post.
You did good, I think, Evan. I have some optimism. But screaming about things not taking off is going to change about as much as an election ... and like that subject, put many off.
@drvolts (I think it was - and apologies if it was someone else David) demanded 'minute by minute' updates on the "Boebert situation" after the polls closed at the mid-terms. He took umbrage at my pointing out the absurdity of this, in something he could not change the outcome of. The die was cast. And electoral politics changes little in late-stage neoliberalism anyway.
The incremental nature of what has become achievable by politicians won't solve jack shit. Too much power handed to money, finance, and vested interests now since the Thatcher-Reagan reforms. The climate crises will not be solved by existing institutions. Even knowing that .. I'm here and not here. I have to put my house in order ... a Buddhist idea regarding proper priorities.
Have a nice day. You aren't shouting into the wind or a desert.
debs
•charvaka :mastodon:
•Evan Beaver
•Alessio :linux:
•Hilary
•People are free to use Mastodon, or not, in any way that's within the rules. You are at liberty not to follow or indeed to block them.
Arie Goldshlager
•What more can we (#Mastodon) do find them and reach out to them, before they lapse?
#TwitterMigration #twitterexodus #newhere
Laura Lis Scott
•announcer (in English): Listen to Spanish simulcast on AM 680
narrator: …and the message remained unheard, never received by its target audience.
😫
JackBarrowUK
•Evan Prodromou
•1. Use a Twitter social graph synch tool to follow people here that you followed there. https://www.movetodon.org/ is a good one.
2. Make a quality post every day. Photos are best!
3. Use hash tags for reach.
Good luck!
Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
www.movetodon.orgJackBarrowUK
•Ron K Jeffries social
•Evan Prodromou
•Daryl Hunt
•Jack Vinson
•Dan van Moll :apple6:
•Miakoda
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