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Erin Kissane

Hey US folks, the FDA is expected to approve boosters very soon, but the CDC’s vax advisory committee doesn’t meet until Sept 12. That’s when we’ll know who will be able to get boosted.

Paul Offit, the guy opining in the media about who gets shots, is just an advisor to the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. He is not in charge of anything is always like this: He voted against the bivalent booster and argues against using covid vax to protect against infection.

7 Sep 2023 at 17:09 | Open on mas.to
Bill Hooker

@kissane I bet you Offit has had every vax and booster possible. Evil bastard.

7 Sep 2023 at 17:11 | Open on chaos.social
Erin Kissane

CANT PUT THE GENIE BACK IN THE BOTTLE!!!

screams the CEO of GenieBottle Smash dot com, his hands surgically replaced with blacksmith's hammers

31 Aug 2023 at 18:04 | Open on mas.to
Erin Kissane

If you're involved in tech in some way—very broadly defined—could you give me a very quick no-Googling-to-refresh-your-memory answer to this to help me calibrate a thing I'm working on?

"What I know right now about what happened with Facebook in Myanmar during the Rohingya crisis in 2016-2017 is…"

Anonymous poll

Poll

little to nothing
3
0%
I remember some stuff about content moderation?
16
0%
I remember specifics beyond moderation trouble
9
0%
I can give a pretty good outline of the whole deal
3
0%
0 people voted.
Voting ended 27 Aug 2023 at 23:37.
26 Aug 2023 at 23:37 | Open on mas.to
Erin Kissane

Admin note: Boosts are welcome, but when this escapes containment and people start doing conspiracy/hoax narratives, I will be blocking liberally and may delete if it gets bad enough.

26 Aug 2023 at 23:40 | Open on mas.to
Erin Kissane

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-ea

#meta

28 Jul 2023 at 21:56 | Open on mas.to
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Ninefish

@kissane thanks for sharing that info.
Weirdly my experience has been the opposite, not sure what’s important, but, here’s a list
1 I joined a geographically local instance which is lovely as well as many of the things you note regarding demographics
2 I primarily use @ivory which is alike to their Twitter app, so following, hashtags etc was very familiar in the app
3 On joining mastodon.nz there were some great welcome from admins with instance etiquette for context.
4 finding folk was harder

29 Jul 2023 at 3:49 | Open on mastodon.nz
Mathew

@kissane half the content on Mastodon is about Mastodon.

29 Jul 2023 at 3:49 | Open on noc.social
Zorro

@kissane that's a really great analysis repository! I hope it is leveraged to improve things, without losing what this place has.

I've persisted with Mastodon because the alternatives were too morally unconscionable for me but, especially in the first 6-8 weeks, it was very tempting to give up.

29 Jul 2023 at 3:52 | Open on aus.social
Erin Kissane

I migrated servers last week and boy did I develop some strong opinions about migration and the as-yet only semi-fulfilled promise of account portability.

If you're thinking about moving instances—or you'd like to know yet more about my dreams for better networks—here's a post you might want to read:

erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-m

26 Jul 2023 at 22:13 | Open on mas.to
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Ric

@kissane I made the mistake of migrating to an instance that had soft defederated my original instance. I lost so many followers.

I don't know if I did something wrong, but it was frustrating.

29 Jul 2023 at 13:30 | Open on dice.camp
jaxroam

@kissane The current set of Fediverse protocols *partially* solves migration.

Or to quote myself "This is definitely *better*, but is it good enough? Is it how it should be?" (rhetorical question, as migration is one of the major Fediverse selling points, the answer is "no")

jaxroam.vivaldi.net/2022/11/19

Far as I can tell there is no specification for user migration, what a conforming application and servers running it must do to enable this, and we need that.

30 Jul 2023 at 8:34 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
_Birdie_

@kissane Thank you for this - super helpful as I try to figure out if I should migrate given all the drama with admins. As a non-tech noob, I just picked what looked like the most reputable instance b/c a big name like George Takei was already onboard - which certainly illustrates your point about people not understanding how / why to pick an instance.

I know this post has been up for a couple weeks now, and I imagine you've heard from a lot of folks 'in-the-know' on the dev side of things... wondering if you still think those of us considering migrating should move quickly, or do you anticipate a number of these issues will be solved sometime in the near future, making waiting a little while longer sensible to avoid some of the pain?

I see you're out-of-office at the moment, so please don't worry about replying asap (or at all, haha).... just curious on your thoughts after the discussion.

@kissane Thank you for this - super helpful as I try to figure out if I should migrate given all the drama with admins. As a non-tech noob, I just picked what looked like the most reputable instance b/c a big name like George Takei was already onboard - which certainly illustrates your point about people not understanding how / why to pick an instance.

6 Aug 2023 at 16:34 | Open on universeodon.com
Erin Kissane

This migration guide from @nuz is so thorough and great, you can put in your info and it customizes the step-by-step for you in case you, like me, have a unhelpfully squirrely brain.

guide.cutie.city/the-fediverse

21 Jul 2023 at 21:26 | Open on mas.to
Charles Roper

@kissane @nuz Very useful, thank you. That gets a @sarajw holy trinity.

21 Jul 2023 at 21:28 | Open on indieweb.social
kit yetts

@kissane @nuz i love this. would've been handy when i did my first migrate! saving for future reference, sharing for folx who might be considering the big leap.

21 Jul 2023 at 21:31 | Open on zirk.us
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