@atomicpoet Sad to see that @VOANews is not spinning their own instance up and instead taking a free ride on mastdon.social

@atomicpoet @VOANews @ai6yr this must be some kind of experimental or brand new thing. It’s not really mentioned on their website, but you’re right it is verified off of their official domain. Very excited to see media moving over here!

@atomicpoet @VOANews

VoA still exists?

@atomicpoet
Maybe that’s a good thing 🥴

@atomicpoet I don’t buy it! Dogs are far more rational and kind than Space Karen! And I know we voted him out as CEO - my last action at the hellsite. Maybe that’s why he tries to blame it on the dog. People do that with farts usually, but Floki must also be a genius (his name means “pubes” in my native language)

@atomicpoet hey it could only be an improvement

@atomicpoet If they are real friends and you have real ties, they can easily look for you in many other ways without limiting themselves to just one and without forcing you.

@atomicpoet I originally joined Twitter along w many other artists that were also friends. We had a lot of hopes of where It would take us. Most of us took our artists biz to FB & Insta. Much more profitable there, especially due to lots of friends & family. I only went back for journalists & podcasters.

@atomicpoet can’t imagine people who use twitter DMs as their primary form of text communication

@atomicpoet I really want to see if it's possible to write a script to drain truth social's ad budget (because they decided to pay for apple app store ads on "mastodon" and "fediverse" keywords) lol

@atomicpoet ***you wouldn’t believe how they value your privacy!

@atomicpoet A crowdfunding opportunity? I'd chip in.

@atomicpoet !remindme 5years

@atomicpoet @chrisnoto Substack is a financial backer of Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Yglesias, Bari Weiss and whole bunch of other right wing assholes. I wish people would skip it.

@atomicpoet zero interest in any substack owned social thing. they can do whatever they like, I don't care

@atomicpoet
I logged into my Twitter today for the first time in a couple of months and the first thing I saw was a “notification” of a Joe Rogan tweet. I assure you I am not, nor have I ever been a follower of J.R.
What a waste of a platform. Just another site churning out hate and disinformation.

@atomicpoet @Anneke I try, I find it pretty hard. So many people on Twitter aren't using Mastodon actively.

@atomicpoet I am still on Twitter purely for the knowledge. A few educators that I have learnt immensely from seem to have refused to move away from Twitter.

@atomicpoet is it possible they're somehow not being recognised and are counted as mastodon nodes?

@atomicpoet question is do Cloudflare care or was it just a tech demo for their Lambda replacement?

@atomicpoet I did take a look at it, but it looked far too confusing to set up requiring all sorts of different parts of their service, and other services such as GitHub! All they need is a massive "Deploy on CloudFlare" button that asks you to link it to a domain, but no. It's confusing. It's long-winded. Plus, doesn't it defeat the point of decentralised if the idea is that you host it all on CloudFlare - one service?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews “..it can’t be controlled by a single entity…”. Who foresaw the massive significance of this?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews i hate how theyre linking directly to mastodon.social instead of joinmastodon.org

also countersocial 💀

@fediversenews @atomicpoet Now if only the search feature would light up 😒

@atomicpoet “there's no good in trying to win the oppression olympics”

Boy are you on the wrong internet in the wrong decade

@atomicpoet

Welcome to #Twittodon. There are already folks on here who feel a sense of ownership of words and no one can use them unless they are wearing the same shoes as the word's new owner.

#refugee from Twitter
#escapee from Twitter
#immigrant from Twitter

And so on till it's tiring. Thank goodness for the #block button.

It’s actually funny when cis hetero men ask, “Why would anyone pay for an e-daddy?”

I mean, I don’t know what to tell them.

@atomicpoet Have you considered father figure influencer?

@atomicpoet For a minute there I thought you were talking about a niche online dating service.

@atomicpoet I would but I'm watching thJets game.

@atomicpoet

> Parag Agrawal sued Elon Musk in order to force him to buy Twitter

If it weren’t for that, Twitter would have dodged the bullet. So when history records who was responsible for bringing Twitter to the gates of hell, Parag Agrawal will be number two on the list, right after Elon Musk.

@atomicpoet parag was a horrible CEO.

@atomicpoet

I think it is relevant, and extremely important, that Twitter responds to every press inquiry by auto-replying with a poop emoji.

Twitter is a massive information regulating machine with immense global power. Its actions have life or death consequences for billions of people. Many falsely believe that it is a socially responsible corporation. It is not. It is an emotionally impaired 12-year-old boy who sends poop emojis.

@atomicpoet man, i don’t ever get any requests for comments ;)

@atomicpoet

At Meta, What's App, Snapchat et al to all that.

@atomicpoet I dont use any of big socials or any other social media. Only on mastodon because I think its a much safer space.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews It's not a panacea. Business models centralize, decentralize, centralize, decentralize. The Fediverse as is (at this time) a lot of independent entities (instances) that talk to each other.

Somewhere along the line the evil ones will offer free or low-cost hosting for any independent instantance that is facing a cash crunch. The peak of a steep decline and one that is hard to reverse.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

Welcome to Mastodon!

1. Make an account on every fediverse server and create a unique introduction post for each one.

2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.

3. Always use the hashtag #icomeinpeace. Otherwise, we will assume you are hostile.

4. When browsing Mastodon, remove your socks. It is customary.

5. Tell five of your friends to join. Yes, it's a pyramid scheme.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

Article does propagate once again the same erroneous "engage with a large audience" BS about big corporate controlled social which power-user pundits just can't adequately face.

Only selected celeb / power-users have Big Corp Social visible posts. They're fake social platforms, to broadcast at the plebs, not engage with them.

As an ordinary mortal you engage with a massively larger audience by using the #Fediverse instead, by using #Mastodon over and above #Twitter

@atomicpoet
Don't they realize they are actually devaluing their products?

@atomicpoet
WordPress has had this 'feature' for years.
Just set up a new self-hosted #WordPress install, leave the default settings in place, and watch your site fill up with automated comment spam. Most of it is variants of "hey, great blog!"

@atomicpoet My AI loves me more than your AI loves you!

Wait, are you an AI?

@atomicpoet Software had a lot more top-end detail and warmer mid-range on floppies, that's for sure!

@atomicpoet My first Linux install was I believe 19 1.44MB floppy images downloaded from a university FTP server over dialup, which took a couple of days. If I could find a 486DX2-66 to install it on, it might be fun to recreate that.

Apart from the 2 day download; I have no desire to recreate 9.6 kilobaud or 14.4 kilobaud or whatever speed I was running at the time.

@atomicpoet Agreed, most media today now is locked behind some SaaS forever subscription. We need a physical format, to trade media with, preferably capable of running small applications straight from the disk.

@atomicpoet @ellieapp @fediversenews thanks, will check it out!

@atomicpoet @ellieapp it would be really awesome if there was a fedi app for the windows phone

@atomicpoet @ellieapp @fediversenews Logo looks like it was drawn by a child in Paint.

@atomicpoet @mastodon_daily_active_users oh man, one look at it and it's very clear what that server is all about

@atomicpoet That's a lot to ponder.

@atomicpoet They're the same thing.