[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

Wed Nov 9 18:13:00 PST 2022

I’ll be honest, I’m a little worried about the privacy and security issue
of using these services. I did see Wolfie Christl (who I trust) share two
such sites and say he trusts the people behind them (
https://mastodon.social/@wchr/109299350293033545), but he also doesn’t seem
to have used them himself as his Mastodon follower count doesn’t seem high
like his Twitter. May I ask the community here whether anyone has concerns?
Many thanks,
Emma

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 16:07, Sarah Ann Oates via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> This app to help migrate from Twitter to Mastodon was recommended by a
> colleague today; I have yet to try it but looks promising:
>
> https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
>
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> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 10:22 AM Steph Kent via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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