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BREAKING NEWS ! ELON MUSK BUYS RT WITH THE $4 BILLION PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF TESLA SHARES. PUTIN SMILES.

BREAKING NEWS ! ELON MUSK OFFERS INSULIN AT THE GOING COMMODITY PRICE OF SUGAR. --- "THE CURE SHOULD BE AS CHEAP AS THE POISON".

@KeithChristma10 @KatyMontgomerie Counter Social is a customized Mastodon server. You should be able to log in to your account here: mastodon.social (That's what I accidentally did, and honestly I find just the plain Mastodon experience much better, after adding various people from Twitter.)

@tanb2002 @KatyMontgomerie Encourage people to put their Mastodon info in their profile, and this will find them: fedifinder.glitch.me

@KatyMontgomerie I spent ages trying to sign up. I've now got an account. Now I can't figure out how to find all the lovelies from twitter to follow. Not very intuitive for me 🤔

@mmasnick @TheLyons @pwnallthethings I only joined in June, but the difference between then and now is night and day. I basically didn't pay attention to it until a few days ago, and now it is clearly giving me a lot of what I was looking for on Twitter.

@StutteringLabUW @ElsaSkold @mehdirhasan Also pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is really useful for seeding who you are following, since Mastodon does not try to help you find people. (And everyone on Twitter should add their Mastodon info for tools like this.)

@ElsaSkold @mehdirhasan Which part of mastodon did you not like? We found it easy to set up, a smooth transition (you can even use a tool to see which of your t**** followers or people you follow are already there), and works very similar to t****. Has been great so far.

Come on tech folks, it’s been 10 days. How long does it take to set up an alternative to Twitter? 🤷🏽‍♂️

@condalmo @mehdirhasan @MollyJongFast Yeah I let my Twitter account sit for years and basically didn't use it because it didn't make sense, but when 2016 rolled around I had the incentive and figured it out. There is a learning curve on Mastodon as well, but it's not major and seems like a good Twitter replacement.

@mycenotaph @mmmmmmbeer @mehdirhasan Servers block other servers they don't want, you can see here a list of servers that are being blocked: mastodon.social/about It is really worth trying out.

@laurenweinstein @Google Me too! Google+ was a nice place.

@OpinionsbyShane @Windarth2 @joshtpm It's really simpler than that, it's conservatives seeing the world as they can do what they want and others can't. Like, boycotts of movies where they didn't like the religious representation in was happening years ago and apparently that was fine as long they were doing it.

@Windarth2 @joshtpm Nah nah. It's quite simple. Companies buying things, including Senators = speech. Good. Individuals not buying things = not speech. Bad.

Let's say a few words about "brand safety". Musk and top Republican leaders are now complaining that the problem is "woke" activists breaking Twitter and pushing it toward financial collapse. Nope. That's not it. Not remotely. Are there people pushing for boycotts or ...

@DrSpEdinNV @WendellSherk @rajagainst @joshtpm In the U.S. at least, the super charger network and really good route planning are still clear advantages they have. But if they lose those as advantages...

@LibbiCurtis @name_inspector @oneunderscore__ And malice taking advantage of stupidity.

Cosmically stupid or historically malicious? It's the unanswered, constantly repeating question of our time.

@THEjoevols @AlecMacGillis @dwallacewells @chrislhayes I mean, do you remember what was happening in places like Italy and NYC at the beginning, with morgues overloaded with bodies? And at the beginning people really didn't know how it was spread. I see this largely as liberals being socially responsible and caring about others.

@THEjoevols @AlecMacGillis @dwallacewells @chrislhayes You sure are making up fantasies. How about this: liberals believed there was risk of a major pandemic, took the reasonable recommended measures to avoid it being a potential major disaster, and adjusted behavior as science better understood and vaccines were ready.

This is something I think about obsessively and while I have some real differences from Ross on it, this is really worth reading.

@tone_e_dee @photo_bb @david_shane @GoAngelo In the 60s you got your opinion out through TV, the press, and radio. All highly content moderated, way more than Twitter and other social networks are today. Your 60s fantasy never existed, in fact today there is way more freedom to get your opinion out in front of people.

1/ This is significant --> Today, more than 40 organizations signed a letter to Twitter's major advertisers urging them to commit to pulling ads if Musk follows through with promises to roll back community safeguards and scale back content moderation. businessinsider.com/civil-society-…

And probably worth adding a serious omission of that article: Apple and Google didn't bet their companies on smartphones at the time. I was very convinced smartphones would be a Big Thing, but I wouldn't have bet a successful company on that and their own platform succeeding.

So the key difference from VR: iOS and Android were being developed when mobile phones had already become a widely used and desired product; VR is far away from that and still trying to figure out what it is as a product, and how much people will want whatever it becomes. (19/19)

I just ran across the article businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-… which I hoped would give good perspective on platforms and VR, but sadly has some major mistakes that make it very misleading. Let's look at those. (1/19)

Really looking forward to the new Birdeatsbaby album. 😍 youtube.com/watch?v=QShKIo…

@michinebeling That is one of the reasons Android is open source, also why it was fundamentally designed to allow open app installs, there is a strong separation between the core AOSP platform and the services Google puts on top, etc.

@michinebeling That was something we thought a lot about in designing Android: if mobile is the next big computing platform, and one or two platforms tend to dominate, what do we want to look like. So we wanted to make Android more open than Windows, reducing the control of a single company.

Good and informative summary. Enjoyed reading this because I clearly remember Microsoft's efforts to promote and saturate Windows Phone as a platform. It failed but there was a chance for more balance in the smartphone ecosystem, which could have been better for the market...