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#MASTODON vs #THREADS Engagement Experiment
Followers:
Mastodon 1,031
Threads 26,800
3 posts at the same time on each.
Mastodon: 62 Hearts 24 Reblogs 4 Replies
Threads: 2 Hearts
26x followers! Bupkis.
Follower counts & the active users on a platform **DO. NOT. MATTER.** if the #algorithm doesn't bless your posts.
Let your creative friends know, Threads (and #Twitter / X of course) are not the solution.
#instagram #meta #tech #facebook
As much as I would love for Mastodon to grow, I get why people are avoiding it like the plague.
People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/24273435/bluesky-user-spike-x-tos-ai-changes-blocking
#Bluesky #Twitter #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Tech
People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
Bluesky says it’s added half a million new users in a day; meanwhile, X is planning to essentially get rid of the block feature and has updated its terms of service around AI.Mia Sato (The Verge)
BREAKING: Elon Musk-backed PAC is micro-targeting muslim areas with ads saying Harris stands with Israel and targeting jewish areas saying the opposite.
Proof that Musk is willing to further divide #America if he thinks it will help his candidate win.
Informed by @jsrailton & article by @jasonkoebler: https://www.404media.co/this-is-exactly-how-an-elon-musk-funded-pac-is-microtargeting-muslims-and-jews-with-opposing-messages/
@404mediaco #elonmusk #disinformation #misinformation #psyops #fediverse #mastodon #kamalaharris #DonaldTrump @MisinformationVillage #twitter #x #isreal #palestine #gaza
This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
If you're a #musician who's moved over from #Twitter, here's four things (that lead to more things), that you can check out to help get acquainted with the #Fediverse.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/
https://www.meljoann.com/pages/blogroll/
https://robertafidora.com/fediup
#Musodon #Music #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Fedi #Blog #Blogs #MastoMusic #Links #Introduction
I wrote an open letter to artists and other creatives who are thinking about giving the fediverse a chance:
"There’s a better way!"
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/a-fediverse-invitation-for-artists/
Feel free to share, and be sure to add your signature!
#fediverse #mastodon #creatives #artists #musicians #twitter #x
Resources for composers and music producers
An open letter signed by the creative fediverse community.Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)
X Wants Lawsuits Steered to Friendly Tesla-Investor Judge
X's updated Terms of Service stipulate that legal complaints against it must go through the right-wing Northern District of TexasMiles Klee (Rolling Stone)
It would be better for @EUCommission to simply ban #X / #Twitter app from European Union 🇪🇺 App Stores (both #Google & #Apple).
That would be far more effective & avoid a long & expensive legal battle in court. Going after unrelated companies would also discourage tech companies from doing more business in #Europe.
👉🏾 EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/eu-considers-calculating-x-fines-by-including-revenue-from-musks-other-firms/ 🔛 @arstechnica
EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms
Musk could face DSA fines of up to 6% of global revenue—including SpaceX sales.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
@Npars01
#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(5/5)
...prompting some gentle sparring on #Twitter — but he soon came around. Given #Saudi Crown Prince #MohammadBinSalman’s [#MBS] years-long crackdown against dissent and powerful businessmen and political rivals — which included imprisoning and torturing hundreds of prominent #Saudis, including Prince Alwaleed, in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel — it’s likely that #MBS controls those shares..."
Do read on:
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-judge-to-unseal-a-list-of?ref=disconnect.blog
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We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders
A federal judge agreed with me that knowing the identities of Elon Musk's investors is in the public interest.Jacob Silverman
@Npars01
#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(4/n)
...and sanctioned entities, is listed an X investor. (#Binance’s CEO, #ChangpengZhao, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations and is finishing up a short stint in federal prison.)
There are two entries for Prince #AlwaleedBinTalal and another for his Kingdom Holding Company, which was the largest outside shareholder of #Twitter when it was a public company. Prince #Alwaleed briefly opposed #Musk’s takeover —...
Looks like another flood of #twitter refugees are incoming - Welcome! Time to reintroduce myself.
I'm Skoops, an #artist and #GameDev that actually frequently uses Mastodon even when your main app isn't self immolating.
I draw a lot of #witch and #MonsterGirl type stuff, and occasionally other things!
(II/n)
...the role model, well nothing can beat the #Chinese #surveillance state.
It's all in the open, #Twitter's programming and infrastructure is way to much legacy and trying to move masses of people from one app to another is all but impossible due to the network lock-in effect, as Cory @pluralistic has been explaining.
A mature #Bluesky product and a quickly collapsing #X infrastructure...
(5/5)
...prompting some gentle sparring on #Twitter — but he soon came around. Given #Saudi Crown Prince #MohammadBinSalman’s [#MBS] years-long crackdown against dissent and powerful businessmen and political rivals — which included imprisoning and torturing hundreds of prominent #Saudis, including Prince Alwaleed, in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel — it’s likely that #MBS controls those shares..."
Do read on:
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-judge-to-unseal-a-list-of?ref=disconnect.blog
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We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders
A federal judge agreed with me that knowing the identities of Elon Musk's investors is in the public interest.Jacob Silverman
(4/n)
...and sanctioned entities, is listed an X investor. (#Binance’s CEO, #ChangpengZhao, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations and is finishing up a short stint in federal prison.)
There are two entries for Prince #AlwaleedBinTalal and another for his Kingdom Holding Company, which was the largest outside shareholder of #Twitter when it was a public company. Prince #Alwaleed briefly opposed #Musk’s takeover —...
I'm fed up of hearing about 'town square' social media 🚫 A town square is so much more. It's human. So, what's the closest we can get? Is it new, cross-platform, social tech? forbetter.ghost.io/why-youll-ne...#SocialMedia #Bluesky #Twitter #X #Fediverse #Blog
Why you'll never have a 'town ...
Why you'll never have a 'town square' on most social platforms
Can open social platforms offer an alternative? Is 'town square' even the right metaphor? The 'digital town square' is an idea X seems to have their claws in. It's not a bad one either.Saskia (FORbetter)
@Npars01
#X #TwitterTakeover #TwitterDemolition
#Elections2024
#ElectionInterference
Exactly. #Elmo is carrying out "A controlled demolition" of #X (formerly #Twitter.)
I (and others) have been saying this since early 2023.
However, many saw (and still see) it as a "conspiracy theory". Alas, it clearly isn't, Nicole.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck--here is the reason why, and it's not pretty:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110079043525873237
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
(1/n) I know a lot of people don't want to hear about the #BorgSite or #Elmo anymore. However, until #Twitter is either broke or #nationalized, or #Elmo in jail, or at least not able to control the #DeadBirdSite anymore, the following is very imp…Mastodon
[#YouTube was useful, until the power went out. Before and during the storm, the #fediverse was useful]
#twitter #socialmedia #milton
@lain_7 @Badger_AF @Npars01
why did #musk buy #twitter instead of use that money for robotics/ space exploration?
the answer lies in knowing the nature of the edgelord manchild:
why feed your ego with admiration from afar
when you can reach directly into the social sphere, warp it, and command fealty and worship directly
How hurricane conspiracy theories took over social media
How Hurricane Milton and Helene conspiracy theories took over social media
The misinformation has been fuelled by a social media universe that rewards engagement over truth.Marianna Spring (BBC News)
#Threads & #bluesky are pretty useless since they lack good support for search and hashtags. #Twitter & #Facebook are full of misinformation, even about the hurricane.
Some sites:
* https://spaghettimodels.com/
* https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
* https://www.floridadisaster.org/disaster-updates/Hurricanemilton/
Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump
The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.Matt Binder (disruptionist)
Les #neonazis et autres extrémistes fuient #Telegram pour l’application cryptée #SimpleXChat
L’application #SimpleX Chat, qui a été financée notamment par #JackDorsey (le fondateur de #twitter ) promet aux utilisateurs qu'il n'y a aucun moyen pour elle ou pour les forces de l'ordre de suivre leur identité.
Les néo-nazis et autres extrémistes fuient Telegram pour l’application cryptée SimpleX Chat
L’application SimpleX Chat, qui a été financée notamment par Jack Dorsey (le fondateur de Twitter), promet aux utilisateurs qu'il n'y a aucun moyen pour elle ou pour les forces de l'ordre de suivre leur identité.Atlantico.fr
I'm bookmarking this article on how to delete a #Twitter account.
https://mastodon.social/@Savvyhomestead/113271870232663275
Truth Or Consequences ✅ (@Savvyhomestead@mastodon.social)
I avoid any articles or links to the fascist site like the plague. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-delete-your-twitter-account-when-youve-had-enoug-1848798491Mastodon
As an #OpenSource Software project, our community is what defines us, and that is you!
So far we have never experienced any negativity here, unlike stories from other social media platforms... Let's keep it that way, be happy and constructive with each other and make cool things with #Vala !!!
(Btw if you post about your cool project, there is a chance it gets boosted)
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Gestern entstand hier auf #Mastodon die Idee zu Erfahrungsberichten von Aussteigern aus X oder anderen, antisozialen Medien. Hast Du X, Facebook, Instagram… oder sonst eine kommerzielle Plattform verlassen? Und wie geht es Dir heute damit? Erste, spannende Aussteiger-Berichte sind bereits da. #antisozialeMedien #Xodus #Facebook #Twitter #Ausstieg #Mastodon #Fediversum #Erfahrungsberichte https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/raus-aus-der-thymotischen-empoerungssucht-erfahrungsberichte-nach-dem-x-odus-asm-abschieden/
Erfahrungsberichte aus dem X-odus und anderen ASM-Ausstiegen
Dr. Michael Blume ist mit seinen Abschieden aus Facebook, Instagram und zuletzt X sehr glücklich. Und fragt, wie es Ihnen damit geht.Michael Blume (Natur des Glaubens)
You know it’s bad when X is less popular than:
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Teams
Starbucks
A random food and cosmetic scanner app.
But somehow some people will accuse this of being a political post or me personally attacking Elon Musk. Just accept it Elon Musk is a huge reason it went from a not so great app to an absolute dumpster fire.
#Journalist #KenKlippenstein who published the dossier has been suspended from #Twitter. Searches for posts containing a link to the newsletter turn up nothing.
#Musk has said he is a #freespeach absolutist, but that seems to only hold for voices he agrees with.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-blocks-jd-vance-dossier
X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
Elon Musk’s social media company has blocked links to a journalist’s newsletter. The newsletter contains a hacked document about JD Vance.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Now that X is a steaming toxic trashpit, Semiphemeral can't come soon enough
While Elon Musk spreads hate and Trumpism across his platform, I've been hard at work developing Semiphemeral so you can regain control of your data on X. Here's how development has been going, and how the app will work.Micah Lee (Semiphemeral)
Book Review: 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter' by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Conger and Mac reveal how Elon Musk’s toxic leadership turned Twitter from a global platform into a playground for extremism.
https://open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/p/book-review-character-limit-how-elon #ElonMusk #Twitter #ElonMuskIsAFailure
In Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac provide readers with a gripping account of how a billionaire
"Russia has installed Musk's Starlink on Shahed-136 drones: it gives unlimited communication range for drones flying at 2,000 km"
- Defense Express
The drone was shot down by Ukraine's Armed Forces during last night's attack.
With the help of Starlink, Russia can use Shahed drones as an extremely long-range loitering munition with the ability to conduct reconnaissance checks, thanks to an additional camera, and even hit moving targets.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #Musk #Twitter #x
At @Vivaldi we love the Fediverse!
More and more are joining. I urge you all to help your friends join as well!
https://vivaldi.com/blog/social-web-foundation-launches-supported-by-vivaldi/
#fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #BlueSky #Facebook #Computer #Mozilla
Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldi | Vivaldi Browser
We’re proud to support the launch of the Social Web Foundation. We love the Fediverse!Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)
