[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

[Richard Forno]

It's not Musk's views per se that's driven me from Twitter, but that's a 
major reason, sure.

I have a hard time *relying* on a communications platform run by a 
company now fully engaged in the proverbial "move fast, break things" 
mentality based on whatever singular whims or rage cycle its owner is in 
at the time a decision is made.   To wit:  They are now asking people 
just fired to come back, b/c nobody knew they were integral to the 
features Musk wanted to develop.  (Were it me, I'd say sure, but double 
my salary.)   He's also reversed other polices and views that he 
preached -- he was against permabans until Kathy Gifford parodied him 
over the weekend, so she's banned.  He's also said other people not 
'clearly identifying' as parody accounts would be perma-banned.  That's 
a far cry from his views about how the company handled other perma-bans 
in recent years.  The entire company -- and platform -- now feels rather 
unstable in many ways, and I feel sorry for the many serfs still there 
who will endure such chaos .... and it's only been a week!

Heck, if I wanted to interact on a platform conducting a perpetual beta 
test[1], I'd use something from Google.

-- rick

[1] either technical or managerial


On 7 Nov 2022, at 3:06, Andrew Lowenthal via Air-L wrote:

> Wonderful to see so many people (re)embracing open 
> source/non-corporate social media etc. Ultimately alternatives that 
> don't place us at the whim of one oligarch or the other are the best 
> solution.
>
> One question however - the thrust of the Musk criticism is that he 
> will be too libertarian. With that in mind, where does the assumption 
> come from that he will shut off access to academic twitter? Has there 
> been a statement? It would seem to go against his anti-censorship 
> ethos. Or is it more that it would not be in his interest to serve an 
> overwhelmingly left-wing academia?
>
> Anything tangible as to known intentions of already concluded Twitter 
> actions would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
> On 11/7/22 01:28, Paul Levinson via Air-L wrote:
>> Just followed ISOC on Mastodon -- thanks!
>>
>> -- PL
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 7:19 PM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not that you don't see enough of them already, but ISOC LIVE 
>>> announces go
>>> out at @jolynyc at mastodon.social
>>>
>>> I'm interested to see if EM messes with Twitter live (ex-Periscope) 
>>> which
>>> I quite like.
>>>
>>> Joly
>>> --
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> Joly MacFie  +12185659365
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> -
>>>
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