[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

[Steph Kent]

Hi all,

Following the Twitter|Mastodon threads with critical interest. I appreciate
the invitation from Michael Ruigrok to  members of this group to bring your
sophisticated knowledge and experience to the improvement of federated,
communal social networks. I'm always interested in access, thinking about
outlier groups such as the Deaf, for whom text is frequently not a
sufficient accommodation (despite the convenience of this belief for
h/Hearing people). *That said, Deaf academics on Twitter are formidable!

I'm glad of the resources from Meryl, Joly and Fred Fuchs too, as I'm at
the edge of my learning curve learning how to navigate Mastodon.

Wanted to share this political, antiracist perspective from Tim Wise, who
argues that it's mainly white liberals who are concerned with 'fleeing' the
new Twitter
<https://timjwise.medium.com/fleeing-twitter-the-twexodus-is-about-white-liberal-fragility-3631cb2ac317>,
suggesting this is evidence of the pervasiveness of white fragility -- even
among progressives.

best regards,
steph



On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 1:30 AM Fred Fuchs via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

> Here's a TechRadar article on Mastodon.
>
>
> https://www.techradar.com/news/mastodon-is-a-great-twitter-alternative-but-it-needs-to-be-easier-to-sign-up
>
> Fred
>
> --
>
> Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer
> FireSabre Consulting LLC
>
> ---
>
> On 11/7/2022 8:26 AM, Fred Fuchs wrote:
> > On 11/7/2022 6:51 AM, Richard Forno via Air-L wrote:
> >> 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.)
> >
> > Sadly this is not uncommon during "regime changes" at
> > Internet tech companies. The new leadership fires far more
> > people than they should've, and then often has to hire
> > some or even many back at a significant salary increase.
> >
> > On top of that, some of those with good employment
> > prospects may decide to seek better opportunities. So
> > their possibly irreplaceable tech and business practices
> > knowledge is lost forever.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > ---
> >
> > On 11/7/2022 6:51 AM, Richard Forno via Air-L wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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