disappointing that some people who left mastodon for twitter have now decided that a privately‐run company with no oversight cannot possibly be reasonably expected to ethically manage social media, and so have responded by jumping on another platform run by a private company with no oversight (cohost)
@Satsuma this post is trending
@aescling if there is one thing rich people lack it is self-knowledge
@aescling does elon musk not know how to use git
@aescling i have that one framed lol
@aescling NYT agrees: « Amid layoff fears, some Twitter employees were instructed to print out copies of the code they had written recently as possible proof of work, said two people with knowledge of the situation. »
@aescling libgen has basically no queer theory but i can get some texts through my work
:P
@aescling or is it social MEDIA?
this isn't anti-hashtag but if you're working on a zine / collective / conference / etc consider making a group for it and following that instead
i think we have better tools for more intentional and more specialized communities here than Twitter can offer, even if they might be a little harder to find
one thing i would love to see from #MastoArt folks is a more active embracing of tools like https://a.gup.pe/ to build intentional networks of support, instead of relying on hashtags and similar networking patterns carried over from Twitter
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