Amanda Unvarnished

How Mastodon is scaling amid the Twitter exodus by Ingrid Lunden (techcrunch.com)

Twitter is in crisis these days. Under new owner Elon Musk, the service has lost more than half its staff through layoffs and quitting, made erratic moves in its product and platform strategies and is facing up to reports about its financial state. That disruption, in true tech industry style, has led to the emergence […]

Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen by Mark Strauss (Smithsonian Magazine)

Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia

Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon by Richard MacManus (thenewstack.io)

Blaine Cook joined Odeo, Ev Williams’ startup, in 2005. Along with his fellow developer, Rabble (a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath), Cook was

Stripped of their committee posts in 2021, MTG and Paul Gosar are coming back—and Omar will lose a committee post in retribution.

The ex-president’s former allies are coming up with reasons to reject him, as though these weren’t always obvious and abundant.

Echoing Kremlin talking points.

There is no one-size-fits-all pro-free-speech answer to the intractable content moderation paradox. 

Twitter is a for-profit company with headquarters in California. It has a CEO. It has investors and revenues and a valuation. The purpose of the company is to make money for its…