Aaron Parecki

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Andy Baio https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio

feeling pretty good about this prediction I made over five years ago here https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/12626

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:30pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:38pm -08:00)
EposVox https://glitch.lgbt/@EposVox

Just a reminder that more users is not inherently more success for a tool where market control and profit aren’t the goals. Mastodon has been successful for its users for years and will continue to be, even if it doesn’t “replace Twitter” for the global populous. That’s fine.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 12:32am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:38pm -08:00)
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Nov 19
You guys are investing so much energy on this! 😅 I am planning to stick to the bird while it’s viable and only start doing anything with 🐘 if 💩 hits the 🚁

I don't know how you can look at *waves arms in this general direction* and think everything is still fine! 😅 https://twitterisgoinggreat.com

Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:22pm -08:00
Orie Steele https://twitter.com/OR13b • Nov 19
I wish it was possible to do this with just GitHub workflow and GitHub pages.

Tell me about it! I tried really hard to push for simplicity in the spec, to enable exactly that use case, but sadly did not win that argument.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:17pm -08:00
Mike Jones https://twitter.com/selfissued • Nov 18
How did you choose your Mastodon provider?

or you can be your own provider! I wrote up some options that don't involve running your own Mastodon instance here: https://aaronparecki.com/@aaronpk

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:12pm -08:00
Richard Littler https://twitter.com/richard_littler

People grumbling that Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:01am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 3:13pm -08:00)
Contributions from: Kuwait, United Kingdom, United States

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Contributions from: Kuwait, United Kingdom, United States

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 1:46pm -08:00
Michael Harriot https://twitter.com/michaelharriot

Here’s what people I talked to at Twitter are saying.

Anyone who says they know what’s going on at Twitter is lying. No one there even knows how many people quit. It’s likely that Elon doesn’t even know. They’ll probably have to do an actual head count when they open on Monday

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 6:53pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 12:37pm -08:00)
Contributions from: Kuwait, United Kingdom, United States

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 12:27pm -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk That's not too bad! I had expected a much heavier message load. What are you running your instance on?

Keep in mind I'm only following just over 100 people right now. It's a bunch of hand-rolled code.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:50am -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk What's the unit on the y-axis? If it's posts-per-day that doesn't look too bad, but I suspect that's not it 😀

Yeah it is! well not "posts" exactly, but all ActivityPub messages received per day.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:36am -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk What determines that number? Is it something like the combined number of messages posted by the people you follow and the people that follow you?

There's a lot of things. Posts from everyone I follow. Replies and likes of those posts. If you delete a post it sends a Delete activity. There's also a *ton* of redundant account Delete activities sent for some reason too.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:18am -08:00
jasonbaumgartner@infosec.exchange (Mastodon) https://twitter.com/jasonbaumgartne

Pushshift is already seeing a larger number of server side errors coming back from Twitter's API. Approximately 25-30% of all API requests are now failing.

Generally we see a failure rate well under 1%. Error rates have been increasing steadily since Nov 16.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:55am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:45am -08:00)
https://mastodon.social/@seldo/109366250730812494

100% agreed. of course in my case, the local timeline is just me 😂

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:37am -08:00
G. L. https://twitter.com/gldivittorio

You're laughing. Instagram accounts that gained hundreds of thousands of followers entirely by posting twitter screenshots are losing the source of their livelihood and you're laughing.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 1:25am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:21am -08:00)
Igor Brigadir 🇺🇦 @igor@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/IgorBrigadir

for what it's worth: 10th floor, 2pm, 6months could very well be variables to figure out your source. If you send a bunch of emails with different floors, times and durations you can narrow it down to the person exactly.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:18pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:16am -08:00)
Tom Coates https://twitter.com/tomcoates

If I were them I’d post the full content on the internal slack, which cannot be problematic, thus making it very easy for anyone to have plausible deniability if they leaked the information outside.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:45pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:15am -08:00)
tef https://mastodon.social/@tef

people say "mastodon can't recreate twitter" but within a day, two complete strangers have told me how to use a piece of software without me even asking
progress never ceases

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 3:20pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 9:37am -08:00)
Shannon Morse https://twitter.com/Snubs

I've never been involved in this heavier side of network infrastructure, but I have reported on hundreds of cases over the years on ThreatWire, and how easily things catch fire.

This shit ain't overblown folks. It takes an army to keep a platform working as normal.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:03pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 9:36am -08:00)

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