Notes – Page 68 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 22 Heshvan 5783 (Wednesday 16 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

A History of Recent Twitter Migration to the Fediverse

1 month ago: Mastodon? No thanks. You have to have a Ph.D in Hackerology to use it.

3 weeks ago: I don’t like this Mastodon… But if I have to… *sigh*

2 weeks ago: Wait. This does really cool things like let me edit posts. So genius. Is this free?

1 week ago: OMG! There’s other apps! Now I know why there’s a Fediverse!

Today: Comrades—let’s fight for our freedom! Cast off the chains of Big Social!

—@atomicpoet

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Amanda CAARSON

· 22 Heshvan 5783 (Wednesday 16 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Oh great, Defcon now has its own instance. I'm already getting into enough trouble following all the infosec people from that big instance, plus finding all the accessibility and WordPress folks, and now I have another instance to scour for kick-ass content.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 22 Heshvan 5783 (Wednesday 16 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

The thing that’s amazing about Elon Musk’s Twitter is he’s handled it worse than my wildest expectations.

Like when he announced he was buying it, I thought I was going to have to quit out of some hard-to-convey sense of moral unease, like the way I quit Facebook.

Instead, it’s like he coated himself in SpaceX jet fuel, crashed his Tesla right into Twitter HQ, then stumbled out of the wreckage to light everything he touches on fire.

All while shouting: “The Holocaust never happened!”

—@drcrypt

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Amanda CAARSON

· 22 Heshvan 5783 (Tuesday 15 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Please do not crosspost the text of other people’s posts from here onto Twitter!!! That is a serious breach of consent, and potentially personally dangerous for that person!!! If you have an automated system set up onhere to crosspost the text of all of your toots – including boosts of other users – from here to Twitter, turn it off.

—@alex

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Amanda CAARSON

· 21 Heshvan 5783 (Tuesday 15 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Want to export your old threads from Twitter and put them into a blog or Mastodon or something? Here you go! It will go through your Twitter export archive and recreate the threads.

https://gist.github.com/LeeHolmes/4ebeed5df73ac04678d7c954f74701e6

—@Lee_Holmes

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Amanda CAARSON

· 21 Heshvan 5783 (Tuesday 15 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

#a11y When I start reading a post / article / talk / library / framework / etc that makes claims about its accessibility, I generally dismiss it.

This post discusses what I look for before trusting it, and offers resources for your own efforts:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/11/your-accessibility-claims-are-wrong-unless.html

—@aardrian

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Amanda CAARSON

· 21 Heshvan 5783 (Tuesday 15 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Man I hope We Rate Dogs and Thoughts Of Dog end up migrating over here because honestly that is some of the best content on Twitter.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 21 Heshvan 5783 (Tuesday 15 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

I'm playing around with some pesos options because posting from Tweesecake is a bit more frictionless, and because some of the content that's relevant to Mastodon is not relevant to micro.blog and vice versa. Let's see how this goes.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 16 Heshvan 5783 (Thursday 10 November 2022) · 1 minute to read

Currently frustrated with some very loud Twitter Migration folks. I’m glad you guys are checking out the fediverse through Mastodon, but we are explicitly not a Twitter clone, people have a right to curate their timelines and some of that is done through content warnings, feedback is fine but being a jerk about it is an excellent way to make sure that feedback is ignored, and none of us told you to come over here and completely disrespect the community norms we’ve collectively established. We’re sorry Twitter’s imploding, and we get that you’re mourning that on top of having to adjust to a new community. But we didn’t create any of these problems and we shouldn’t be expected to solve them for you without so much as "please" from you either.