@thelanguagenerd thank you!
How Musk may reinvent the internet without even trying
The shift from #Twitter to #Mastodon and #ActivityPub could be an epoch-making digital revolution, comparable with the invention of the web itself. ActivityPub may restore the web and its most sophisticated layer, social media, to the open and universally connectable vision of the #internet itself.
So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.
If you go to https://spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction
climate change
Climate change:
“Spruce Trees Are Invading the Arctic. Here’s What That Means for Our Planet.
Perplexed by shadowy images on a satellite photo, a climate scientist packed up and set out for the Alaskan Arctic. What he found should alarm all of us.”
I saw a poll like this last week, but I thought it would be cool to do it again with another major migration underway. Boost so we can get a better sampling.
So here's the first-ever Post-Elon-Suspended-Me-From-Twitter-And-Made-Up-A-Story-That-I-Doxxed-Him Countdown podcast https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/so-elon-musk-has-banned-me-from-twitter-12-16-22
Website whose entire business model is selling location of users takes offence at tracking location of user
Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan
Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa
Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee
Tony Webster
@tony
Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder
Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.
It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.
Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.
Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.
<#alt: "if men flirted like birds: 1st panel: [he shows her this house] 'I've built you this beautiful house'
2nd panel: [he twirls in a ballet performance] 'I will perform the sensual dance which I have practised for a year just to impress you'
3rd panel: [he offers her an armload of collectibles] 'I have collected some pretty rocks & other stuff that I heard you might like'
if birds flirted like men:
4th panel a red robin speaks to another red robin 'I showed u my dick, pls respond' ">