 Friends, while Twitter still mostly works: - Add your Mastodon address to your Twitter bio. There are tools that help people follow you automatically. Let's gooooooooooooo 11 comments
@chrisjrn I don't think of it as a win. There are a lot of people losing their jobs tonight. There are a lot of people who are going to lose an essential communications medium over the next few days or weeks. I'm just glad so many great developers have worked on the fediverse so it's ready to help.  @evan I am extremely grateful that something thriving exists that we could move to, and is unlikely to go away in the same way. @evan Do people really want to remember that shit post from 3 years ago? @evan @debirdify The system that does the backups is distinct from the servers handling normal user traffic. If you want your archive get it while you can. @richunger usually this kind of thing runs with a queue that's handled by a limited number of job-handling servers. The more people in the queue, the longer it takes to get your backup. Maybe that's not how it works at Twitter. But if it is, people who already have 99% of their stuff backed up might want to wait to let people with 0% of their stuff backed up get a backup before things go 100% sideways. If you're aware of another structure that makes this unnecessary, lmk. @richunger I don't think you understand my point. Clogging the queue when you already have a mostly-complete backup is unfair to the people who have no backup. They may not get any back up at all before the wheels come off the cart. |
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Feels like you might have just about won the long game. Thanks for all you did in the early days <3