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How religious Judaism helps shield the American president’s disparagement of globalism, cosmopolitanism, and other features of progressive secular Jewry from claims of anti-Semitism

Hachyderm has reached 30,000 users. A 'small sized' service in regard to scale. However, in the process we have hit very familiar 'medium sized' scale problems which caused us to migrate our services out of my basement. This is the outage report, post mortem, and high level overview of the process of migrating to Hetzner in Germany. From observation to production fixes. This is the story.

Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean by Hilda Bastian

Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up…

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi said the "Twitter Files" would show a political scandal, but the information itself did the opposite

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s First Amendment follies.

With Ye on Infowars and Elon Musk lifting the floodgates on Twitter, the right wing is getting the free-speech thunderdome of its dreams. Or nightmares.

Twitter is a private company—not the federal government.

What Do We Do About Kanye West Now? And Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, and Nick Fuentes, and Alex Jones, and every other person who takes up more energy than they are worth.

They believe everyone must be as craven and corrupt as they are.

Scapegoating marginalized groups is a deliberate fascist tactic to build power.

Why Republicans refused to see the truth about Trump until it was too late.

So I’ve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Most circle around what tech people might dub failure modes in...

Jelani Cobb writes about his recent decision to quit Elon Musk’s Twitter, a social-media platform that once represented the new frontier of digital democracy.

How To Open An Outpost In Social Media Exile by David Carroll

David Carroll shares initial thoughts based on his first couple of weeks as an Admin of a Mastodon instance in the 'Fediverse.'