Vicky Steeves @vickysteeves@octodon.social

as we go into the 2020s i wanna point out that according to star trek irish reunification takes place in 2024

I was quoted in this newsletter about yesterday's Twitter news, saying, "Realistically I don't think this is going to go anywhere; most of these kinds of projects fail. What I'm worried about is that it is going to be a big distraction. It's going to attract resources from the ecosystem that is already out there."

https://www.axios.com/twitter-social-network-standard-open-source-bluesky-e05a9a38-a995-4583-8955-7ccc16cac802.html

Secret occult LaTeX symbols

remember when someone on twitter called bret stephens a bedbug and he went into total meltdown, tried to have them fired, then deleted his account

waiting for jack to set up his own instance only for every single one of us to defed immediately

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lord give me the unjustified optimism of the people that go "I trust that corporation to cooperate with the community"

LOL, even with all of the disagreements and divisions we have on the Fedi, the one thing we all agree on is fuck whatever Twitter is doing.

Hahaha, that's cool.

good morning from ume

i'm no tech person but decentralized twitter that's made/run by twitter is still just twitter

fuck that noise

Twitter: we are looking into decentralising Twitter.

The Fediverse: ha ha ha BLOCK

Mastodon is funding a small independent team of up to five proprietary software architects, engineers, and designers to develop a closed and centralized standard for social media. The goal is for Mastodon to ultimately be the owner of all social media.

Twitter: we are going to do a federated! yay! sunshine and rainbows 😊
Mastodon:

Jack Dorsey followed Mastodon on Twitter a month ago so it's not like he doesn't know Mastodon exists, take from that what you will

#Signal to improve group chats!
https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/

Not only do these standards exist at IETF and W3C and Twitter has never played fair with them, these existing standards were partly designed/informed by folks who jumped ship from Twitter quite some time ago. Full circle, I guess. Meh!

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