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feels a bit like leaving Louis ⅩⅤⅠ for Napoleon but whatever

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i am being informed that their issue was not, in fact, with structural dynamics vis‐à‐vis private companies and their lack of oversight; they just really didn’t like Elon Musk in particular

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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)

when you click on an instance to check it out and it still has the old logo

look, it was the most interesting option, i'm not going to not take it

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i set out to write an easy and accessible pulp story which riffs on current trends in the fanfiction and it already has a complex and unconventional structure and is narrated in a voice unlike anything i have read

@aescling if there is one thing rich people lack it is self-knowledge

@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

LinkedIn, and other things Mastodon is not

and if you’re REALLY serious about community organizing: start an instance!

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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

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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

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.