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So, for any of you that have joined Mastodon - how do you determine which server to join? None of them look like anything that I would like to join.
 
Scarlet said:
So, for any of you that have joined Mastodon - how do you determine which server to join? None of them look like anything that I would like to join.
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I joined mastodon.world because mastodon.social was overwhelmed. I too was looking for one that wasn't as "out there" as some of them currently are. (I have no interest to have @tootblan.universe after my username)

Sounds like it's easy to change which "network" you're a part of later once the dust settles (your username is yours across the entire mastodon network).

And everyone can see everyone across all "networks." The networks are basically a throwback to "are you @yahoo, @gmail or @hotmail," only, you own your username across them all.





https://mastodon.world/@thejoshp even though no one asked.
(Twitter handle was the same @thejoshp)



To be honest I'm kinda hoping BlueSky get into a bigger beta pool, it's created by former Twitter creator Jack Dorsey.

We may be entering this generation's ICQ/AIM/MSN phase... *shockface* the Zoomers and Alpha have no idea what to expect. Elder Millenials for the win!!
 
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I have no interest in Mastodon...sounds like a mess and if I read right it was never designed to be something like Twitter. Something else will come along...

And fuck Jack Dorsey. Not for selling, but for what he was allowing long before he sold. He knew how much misinformation was being passed around for years, he knew how dangerous it was and he stopped his people from moderating it. The guy is just Elon cosplaying as someone in Portland going to a Mumford and Sons concert so people think he is some hippy warrior genius. He sucked up to fascists just like Elon does and his next endeavor will be no better. Jack Dorsey is just another Mark Zuckerburg.

Speaking of Jack's people: https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1593427523206934529

Twitter could break as soon as tonight. According to an inside source, the internal version of the Twitter app used by employees is already slowing down.
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I am guessing we are 72 hours away from Elon saying something like "We are currently shutting down Twitter due to glitches and problems that have been persistent for years. We will be back up and running soon bigger and better than ever!".

I miss ICQ...AIM was hit or miss by ICQ was the hotness!
 
These Corporations and CEO's in America do not see themselves as part of society but only as a money making machine. He got someone to overpay for his worthless gadget. That makes him a superstar in America. We have business networks who will be touting his masterful business acumen for decades.
 
Do we need something else to come along? It's the internet, there can be infinite ways to communicate on it. Apps come and go.
 
I find it relatively unlikely that Twitter just "stops". More likely it will chug along with more and more system and performance degradation. The issue is that if there is no one there to fix bugs, then when some bit of code goes to reference something that's missing or failed, what happens with that error? Twitter, supposedly, is not so much a house built large, but a tiny house built, then another tiny house built onto it as an extension, then another and another until it's Windsor Castle. So you need armies of engineers managing it. That doesn't mean, however, that it's likely to fail all at once.


That said, if it's true that the accounting department is almost vacant, then who's paying bills to the myriad third party vendors that operate servers, or HVAC for the building, or offsite network connectivity, or on and on. Who's making sure the employees that stuck around are paid?


This is absolutely remarkable. We're seeing a multi-billion dollar company literally implode in real time in a very, very public manner. Nothing in history has come close.
 
It's almost like Musk and the investors are using Twitter's eminent collapse as a cover to launder money.....
 
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Saudi Arabia, an anti-democratic oil-dependent nation state, lent Musk money so that he could destroy Twitter as an engine for dissent and democratic engagement and, in the process, severely damage the reputation of a major electric car company.

Has to be one of the smartest loans in modern times.
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I was watching an analyst talk about the tech layoffs, and he mentioned two things- for most of the tech companies laying off, they are going to have to lay off thousands and thousands more to get back to the pre-COVID expansion. They are swimming with people. And 2- all of the people being laid off are hugely skilled, and are going into a worker market that is very short of employees.

As for Twitter, part one does not apply, because musk, but part 2 very much does. It sounds like everyone leaving twitter have more than one opening to apply to in the tech industry. So hopefully, they will all be fine.

I commented to that university of tubes news video that musk is not the brilliant rocket scientist or auto mogul that his worshipers make him out to be. He's bringing money to other people's ideas, and the willingness to burn through it before success. Space X was able to go fast as they made (and are still making) a lot of expensive mistakes. But with that comes success and thanks to russia, a pretty strong demand for rocket travel. This is all about the engineers and scientists that work for SpaceX, not Musk.

And the same goes for Tesla. EV's are not at all Musk's ideas- his major risk was to make EV's with LiIon batteries- which is really risky due to their fire risk. It's working, but there have been far more Tesla car fires than anyone else. And when they faced really hard production problems (that he claimed he would never have, thinking the auto industry are a bunch of hacks), it has taken a long time to fix those- which he STILL has. Tesla's are really good cars, for sure, but they are nowhere near the worship they get. People have died because of their touted self driving modes, and somehow they get away with it. This compared with people making up fire problems for Ford (the Pinto was far, far from unique in the 70s, and the Crown Vic police problems were totally made up) which the media crucified Ford.

Musk is a horrible person. He cares more about making more money for himself and more power than the people working for him- and it's been that way for a long time- it's just now that people are seeing how he treats his slaves thanks to what's going on with twitter.
 
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Musk is a horrible person. He cares more about making more money for himself and more power than the people working for him- and it's been that way for a long time- it's just now that people are seeing how he treats his slaves thanks to what's going on with twitter.
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Every owner, ever.

Take the means. They belong to you.
 
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