What if Saudi Arabia invested billions in Twitter not to profit from it running but protect power by shutting it down?
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an inside peek at the kind of moderation and communication I do on my fediverse server. This is for 50 people who know me very well, hence the casual writing style.
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If you are finding Mastodon a bit difficult I have two recommendations
Your old friend Tumblr.
@automattic been a long friend of the web. Verizon doesn't own it
Check out @microdotblog a well nurtured network and blogging community Native to Austin, TX not Saudi Arabia
#nafo
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As of this morning, nearly 15% of the 5,000 accounts I follow on Twitter have a Mastodon handle in their name or bio. (boffosocko.com/?p=55811732)
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Twitter and the #fediverse are hiccuping at the same time. Unprecedented influx, everybody in my network seems to be creating fediverse accounts in recent days.
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To help get people started, for my first #FeedReaderFriday note, I’m highlighting @genmon‘s (@genmon@mastodon.social) excellent introduction of feeds and readers.
https://aboutfeeds.com/
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To help get people started, for my first #FeedReaderFriday note, I’m highlighting @genmon‘s (@genmon@mastodon.social) excellent introduction of feeds and readers.
aboutfeeds.com (boffosocko.com/?p=55811726)
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Twitter breach would endanger activists, whistleblowers, and others vulnerable to doxxing
apple.news/ApE1K9zFrSBmnA…
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NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/
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"text": "NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: \"Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months\" 1/"
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5 more #PostcardsToVoters for @SenatorWarnock this morning with my cup of coffee. Each card takes 2 minutes. 10 minutes a day can help seal in the Senate gains for jobs and justice.
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A 🧵 of recent #NAFO fellas forged over the past few days.
Make a donation to @StJavelina and get a fella for the holidays
Help protect democracy and freedom in #Ukraine and across the globe
Up first a detective from #Matrix
1/10
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This graph is the number of fediverse messages per day my little single-user instance has been receiving over the past year. Something is different.
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oh, hello twitter exodus (this is my stats dashboard indicating number of federated events the server I run is processing every day)
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Hardfought
Wordle 517 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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"text": "Hardfought\n\nWordle 517 3/6*\n\n\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\n\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\u2b1b\n\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9"
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"url": "https://twitter.com/fluffy/status/1593541155693682690",
"content": {
"text": "New post: Notes: beginner's guide to the indie web beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/1\u2026\n\n#IndieWeb #Tumblr #NameCollision",
"html": "New post: Notes: beginner's guide to the indie web <a href=\"https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/12477-beginners-guide-to-the-indie-web\">beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/1\u2026</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndieWeb\">#IndieWeb</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Tumblr\">#Tumblr</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NameCollision\">#NameCollision</a>"
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Is there a pummeling in progress during eternal Caturday?
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My latest Twitter archive finally finished processing. It started on Sunday.
My previous one (from a couple weeks ago) took like 6 hours. Frankly I'm surprised that they're even working AT ALL right now.
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"text": "My latest Twitter archive finally finished processing. It started on Sunday.\n\nMy previous one (from a couple weeks ago) took like 6 hours. Frankly I'm surprised that they're even working AT ALL right now."
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New post: fluffy rambles: My kitchen before this mess beesbuzz.biz/blog/13659-My-…
#Kitchen #Remodel #Squalor
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"text": "New post: fluffy rambles: MSG observation beesbuzz.biz/blog/11710-MSG\u2026\n\n#MSG #MonosodiumGlutamate #Food #Fibromyalgia #Ketamine",
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