This has absolutely nothing to do with caskets and coffins... it is about Mastodon
Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family.
The Post has seen no evidence that any of the reporters did so.
The suspensions came without warning or initial explanation from Twitter. They took place a day after Twitter changed its policy on sharing “live location information” and suspended an account, @ElonJet, that had been using public flight data to share the location of Musk’s private plane.
Many of the journalists suspended Thursday, including Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, had been covering that rule change, as well as Musk’s claims that he and his family had been endangered by location sharing.
Twitter did not directly respond to questions about the suspensions. But Musk suggested on Twitter, without evidence, that the journalists had revealed private information about his family, known as doxing. “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not,” he tweeted late Thursday.
I originally posted this on Twitter like this:
Now my new tweet looks like this:
I was hoping some of my followers would click the first tweet but hardly anyone even looked at it.
Changed the tweet to see if I can lure more people to click on the link without getting kicked off Twitter.
This blog, despite the title, really has to do with the alternative to Twitter named after a prehistoric beast. It is growing in popularity.
The Twitter bird evolved for a few years (read about it here) but until Elon Musk bought it the bird, with notable exceptions, like most birds mostly tweeted. Now with Musk, it is screeching.
We don't know what a mastodon sounded like but presumably it was something like an elephant. You can listen to elephant sounds here. Mostly they trumpet and this is how they are depicted in most movies. They rumble when communicating with each other, they also roar, bark, snort, and grunt. Tooting isn't on the list, but why quibble. I think the term "toot" conveys that Mastodon wants to be a civil and respectful town square.
Not tooting yet. Click above to create an account.Not ready. Learn more about it here.
Excerpt:Mastodon is an innovative open-source and self-hostable microblogging platform similar to Twitter or Tumblr. Its development was started in 2016 by Eugen Rochko and since then Mastodon constantly attracted new users and communities looking for a social environment independent from big company logics and censorship.
Mastodon is not a Twitter clone: by concept, structure and functionalities it is something completely different and much more interesting!
This page is an introduction to Mastodon’s basic concepts and features which you should know to fully understand how Mastodon works. It is structured in independent sections which you can jump to from the Index (see the link in the upper-left side), but it can also be read as a single text.
The site also hosts an Instances search engine that you can use to find the Mastodon instance that best fits your needs.
I've posted the link to this blog on Mastodon and have been working to add as many links to Mastodon servers as I can find for those who want to get a feel for what it is like, and hopefully if they like it they will join. Scroll down to see the links.
This is what Twitter is doing to those who tweet a link to Mastodon
This is what someone tooted (the same as a Twitter tweet) on Mastodon:
If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…
Below is a screen grab of what they tooted with their identity blocked out by me because there's no established convention or policy there about sharing the identity of someone who posts there.
Those who want to view or join Mastodon can do so at web addresses for Mastodon servers which are decentralized. You can use any of these. More will be posted as I find them:
https://mastodon.social/explore 218k members
Mastodon is an innovative open-source and self-hostable microblogging platform similar to Twitter or Tumblr. Its development was started in 2016 by Eugen Rochko and since then Mastodon constantly attracted new users and communities looking for a social environment independent from big company logics and censorship.
Mastodon is not a Twitter clone: by concept, structure and functionalities it is something completely different and much more interesting!
This page is an introduction to Mastodon’s basic concepts and features which you should know to fully understand how Mastodon works. It is structured in independent sections which you can jump to from the Index (see the link in the upper-left side), but it can also be read as a single text.
The site also hosts an Instances search engine that you can use to find the Mastodon instance that best fits your needs.
The five above appear to have the most members.
Others have fewer, even some less than 200.
https://kinky.business/explore A Mastodon instance for the kink community. Safe, sane, consensual.https://zeroes.ca/explore COVID-aware Twitter escapees ♥️ COVID content, science, resources, advocacy; social, meetup, chat, etc.https://mastodon.ie/explore Irish, with 10k members
All the images below are links
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