Multiple journalists have now been suspended from Twitter: Drew Harwell, Aaron Rupar, Ryan Mac, and Donie O'Sullivan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34007811
This is getting crazy!
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#52The Twitter accounts of journalists are also being suspended, presumably because they dared to talk about ElonJet:
https://twitter.com/drewharwell
This journalist has not been suspended yet: https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy
This is not a good look for Twitter or for Musk.
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#53Multiple journalists have now been suspended from Twitter: Drew Harwell, Aaron Rupar, Ryan Mac, and Donie O'Sullivan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34007811 This is getting crazy!
Also Matt Binder (@MattBinder; see https://twitter.com/adamjraabe/status/1603554054134812676).
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Im very surprised that, among techies, there aren't more people running their own instance as a solo user, so that they can own the entire username including the domain name. It's what I did for myself (Follow me! @jerome@leclan.ch), following Simon Willison's post: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...
"Notice: due to the recent influx of traffic, new subscriptions are closed." https://masto.host/ "hi! there's been a huge wave of new members and new instances recently, and that's a Lot of work. i am tired and especially won't be very available in the next months for health reasons, so i won't be accepting new instances for a while." https://fedi.monster/ "Due to overwhelming demand, registrations are currently clos…
A lot of users on these are opening up public instances, rather than their own. I don't see a huge amount of "host mastodon for yourself on your own domain" people.
I went this route (via https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon - I would have used masto.host otherwise). Im keeping an eye on Takahe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33731739) as hosting mastodon is kind of expensive, for the type of use I make of it.
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#55The cartoon image would be of Elon scrolling through Twitter and spite-banning and spite-unbanning accounts in real time and according to his whim. This cartoon image is also the one that feels increasingly more likely to be true.
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...yes? That's exactly what's happening.
And no one is claiming the government needs to repeal or change any laws and force Elon to do anything, either. They're just leaving.
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#57If you're thinking of trying Mastodon, I would recommend joining an interest-specific or locality-specific server rather than one of the general purpose servers, because the local community is likely to be stronger and more engaged. You can always jump ship later if you find it's not your thing Some examples: - https://fosstodon.org for FOSS - https://infosec.exchange for infosec - https://sfba.social for the bay are…
Last time I looked into Mastodon (a couple years ago), I found a small, specific community that piqued my interest. Months later, the owner of the instance lost interest and closed it. In the end I never registered, but, what would have happened if I did and started to use it in my day to day? Would I wake up one day to find out that I no longer have a Mastodon account?
I feel the response might be something akin to "what would happen if you have a fastmail account and then fastmail closes?". If that's the case, I see absolutely no reason to choose a small instance, just for the sake of reliability and trust in its continued operation.
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...yes? That's exactly what's happening. And no one is claiming the government needs to repeal or change any laws and force Elon to do anything, either. They're just leaving.
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#59My main problem with Mastodon is it's such a tiresome monoculture of opinion. So many people with the pretty much the same politics, biases, grievances as everyone else. Any server that dissents too much from this gets a fediverse block. The whole thing is just so tedious. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy reading opinions from people I have nothing in common with in terms of world view, and whom I vehe…
I'm not saying it's easy but you could probably run your own instance and subscribe to multiple different servers that have the diversity you're looking for.
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#60The Twitter accounts of journalists are also being suspended, presumably because they dared to talk about ElonJet: https://twitter.com/drewharwell https://twitter.com/RMac18 https://twitter.com/donie This journalist has not been suspended yet: https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy This is not a good look for Twitter or for Musk.
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