Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)

@coyotegoth Thanks!

Writing question: I have a female character who likes motorcycles. She's 29, grew up in the US. What are some movie/TV/etc. characters that might have been formative "girls can ride motorcycles? Cool, I wanna do that when I grow up!" influences? #motorcycle #ActionGirls

.@Iconfactory has 16.1k followers on Twitter and about 4.1k on Mastodon. Their last tweet received a mere 9 likes/3 retweets, and an amazing 287 favorites/163 boosts on Mastodon. Even "followers" don’t SEE what you’re saying here anymore. Why stay? @gedeonm/109767074693353269" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@gedeonm/10976…

Tired: I'm not joining #Mastodon because I'm scared of picking the wrong instance. Wired: It doesn't matter; I can move instances later, and *nobody will even notice* if I don't tell them! @PixelJones/109688375709691962" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mindly.social/@PixelJones/10… Make the switch. It's really nice over there!

In case you were following Taylor Lorenz, the WaPo tech reporter who was suspended *on Saturday* (i.e., *after* Musk "reinstated" at least some, but by no means all, of the previous round of censored journalists), she's on That Other Site: @taylorlorenz@(not-elephant).social.

[A major] social media network... has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (possibly and possibly user) information for partisan/ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections. @Chanders/109483870484249548" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciences.social/@Chanders/1094…

Elon's given behind-the-scenes data access to anti-LGBTQ bigots and promised them protection. Twitter is not safe for LGBTQ people to be on at all and this problem won't be rectified - it can only get worse because it is the desire of the new owner. @ashleylynch/109482325930249178" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mstdn.social/@ashleylynch/1…

Twitter's Trust and Safety Council is losing members after Elon fired its head and has stonewalled the council. Do not trust Twitter; you are not safe here. (Unless you're a right-winger. Elon likes those.) slate.com/technology/202…

Thought I'd stay on Twitter to keep a bigger platform for things I want to say. But in the past 2 weeks on #Mastodon, I've had a post hit 130 boosts, and another hit 305. Others have gone over 10 more routinely than my tweets have. So I've got a bigger audience there. Already!

Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID misinformation policy. People can now lie about COVID here with impunity. axios.com/2022/11/29/twi…

My apologies to anyone still using Gothpunk/Freak Nation/etc. email. I just noticed it's been down. I have restarted it and your email should now be arriving; if not, please restart your mail program. I'm sorry about that.

The head of the NAACP has called on advertisers to leave Twitter: msnbc.com/the-reidout/re…

@epistemophagy i was confused by the servers at first. but i googled which one was popular and cool with lgbtqia+ and just picked the first one.

@coyotegoth Yeah, they *did* break here, in the past, but I'm not sure how possible that will be in the future. I think it'll be very hard for stories about injustice, particularly against marginalized people, to gain traction here anymore - and I'm sure that doesn't bother Musk at all.

So, let's take stock. In the past 2-3 weeks, Elon Musk has (in no particular order): 🧵 1️⃣ Fired practically all the content moderators 2️⃣ Reinstated all the kinds of people who had already demonstrated just why content moderation is necessary 1/

Trying would not be a good use of our efforts. It's better if we just leave, and the quicker Twitter collapses, and is acknowledged to have done so, the better - for decent people and also for society and democracy. You can find me on Mastodon. /end

The best course now is to let Twitter become worthless, a place nobody pays attention to anymore. Like Parler and Truth Social. That's where it's headed; it's inexorably going to be overrun with shitposters, disinformers, and Nazis. We can't possibly stop that. 6/