Aaron Parecki

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Brianna Wu https://twitter.com/BriannaWu

Currently employed reliability engineer at Twitter explaining why the site is going to collapse soon.

Says that it may work okay for now, but major news events like Queen Elizabeth’s death will knock it over like a house of cards.

London, England • 50°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:41pm +00:00)
Jim Redmond https://twitter.com/jredmond

So close. There are actually about eight of those tiny little pieces holding everything up, and yes, all those teams got slashed.

London, England • 50°F

Fri, Nov 4, 2022 11:31pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:41pm +00:00)
Andrew Thaler https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler

Twitter Blue is rolling out. Regardless of where you stand, I am urging you not to upload personal or financial data to an interface that was rushed into production this week by disgruntled engineers that will almost certainly be under some sort of attack on day zero.

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:12am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:38pm +00:00)
Ryan Barrett https://twitter.com/schnarfed

Agreed! The CMS plugins, eg WordPress's and Drupal's, don't. For even less technical people, we recommend http://micro.blog. Choosing and registering a domain is as easy as choosing a username on Twitter, DNS is automated and invisible (!), webmention support is built in.

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:26pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:36pm +00:00)
kapowaz@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/kapowaz

This is called gaslighting, kids.

London, England • 53°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:31pm +00:00)
Zack Bornstein https://twitter.com/ZackBornstein

You simply must admire the fact that Elon could do anything he wants every minute for the rest of his life, but instead he dutifully logs in every morning to get kicked in the dick and balls all day by his $44 billion group thread

London, England • 53°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:23pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:24pm +00:00)
eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

it's interesting but feels far too coarse-grained. maybe masto needs something like public groups of related accounts so you can use those as a foothold instead

London, England • 55°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:32pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:36pm +00:00)
eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

"i hate that mastodon is siloed. they should really rethink that"

boy do i ever have great news for you

London, England • 55°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 2:36pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:32pm +00:00)
Alex Vranas https://twitter.com/breakdecks

Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.

Meet Eugen, CEO of Mastodon Social:

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 1:02pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:30pm +00:00)
Amy https://twitter.com/lolennui

every explanation of mastodon makes me feel like I’m at a party and someone wants to play their elaborate card game everyone’s too drunk for

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:57pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:30pm +00:00)
jacqueline https://chaos.social/@jacqueline

everyone is jeering at elon musk, but whom amongst us can say that they’ve never spent too much money on domain name that they don’t know what to do with?

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:28pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:18am +00:00)
Geraldine https://twitter.com/everywhereist

I now understand why my mother left the 12:00 flashing on her VCR

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 7:10am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:09am +00:00)
FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF https://twitter.com/sofarrsogud

I heard twitter is now down to a single employee on a bus who has to keep it travelling at over 50 miles per hour or the site will implode.

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 5:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:08am +00:00)
Mastodon https://twitter.com/joinmastodon

What if I told you that on Mastodon, you can verify yourself, by yourself, for free... 🤫 https://twitter.com/JPFosterson/status/1588957399208976385

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:20pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:26am +00:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

And, hey, if you look at my blog (http://code.sgo.to) you'll probably paint me a knowledge graph kind of person. That is, I probably have an unbiased agenda, but I don't think knowledge graph technologies should be applied to every single problem in the world (e.g. this).

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:09am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:09am +00:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

Can confirm.

I wrote a significant part of the processing pipeline (10 years ago, likely replaced) as well as the schemas that are used in search (also 10 years ago, but likely still used) and we wouldn't know the difference between JSON and JSON-LD.

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:06am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:07am +00:00)
Elon Musk https://twitter.com/jephjacques

what is this. do I have to buy another webside

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:07pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 10:28pm +00:00)
fuuma https://hackers.town/@fuuma

Make the net weird again. Hand write sites like it’s the 90s. Pick interesting domain names and make fan sites or random knowledge known to everyone. Don’t monetize anything. Spearhead new protocols like Gemini. Make mods for games on your site. Make FAQs for obscure games no one knows about. Make public software services available to anyone. Make a news site about a really random subject. Create music in all kinds of different formats. Most of all, do it because you want to!

London, England • 56°F

Wed, Nov 2, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 9:13pm +00:00)
// mastodon.social @hongpong // https://twitter.com/HongPong

I'm stunned how the elusive dream of #indieweb is moving this fast, purely via self destruction

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:39pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:49pm +00:00) #indieweb
Corvidae of Reckoning https://twitter.com/joshmillard

elon musk fucking this place up so bad even Rick Astley's considering giving it up

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:59pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:35pm +00:00)

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