Aaron Parecki

Every single one of these dozens of items is a real threat, known to anyone who manages systems with millions (or hundreds of millions) of users, and one will pop up nearly every day. And none are issues you’d find at, say, a car company. Only a fool would ignore these risks.

banks in 1929: well look at how many people want to visit our banks right now

incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse

Sooo I’m told by two people that the entirety of Twitters payroll department has resigned/not elected to sign up for Elons Twitter 2.0

We should probably have a serious discussion about the ease with which a billionaire haphazardly purchased & immediately destroyed a company that employed 7,500 people and facilitated essential communication for hundreds of millions.

@aaronpk speaking of indieauth, something that i mentioned to @DickHardt over IIW was that I really really really want to make my handle be @sgo.to.

Can't we come up with some form of convention that when you run into a @domain.example we do the indieauth thingy?

If you haven’t already, even if you don’t have a mastodon account, run fedfinder and save the lists of your followers/follows so you can import them later. https://fedifinder.glitch.me

The thing about Twitter's demise is that like yes I'm going to miss a ton of people but also we are going to lose a key tool for communicating about disasters in real time. /1

if you were texting your tweets to 40404 just know I love you for real

NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow.

I’m still not going to leave this place until it collapses around me, because I’ve always secretly wanted to be in an end of the world movie and this is as close to Deep Impact as I’m going to get. But if you are trying out Mastodon, I’m @tomcoates on http://mastodon.cloud

Pretty wild something that is clearly a public utility can be single handedly destroyed by a bored unfunny emerald mine heir in less than 60 days.

This whole time I was mostly lurking

no

bring back phpbb

Good thing we changed it a while back so that the underlying blockquote never gets deleted unless you aggressively clean out oEmbed caches yourself 😇

All of this brought to you by a small handful of engineers that really believe in extending capabilities on the web, even if they hear otherwise from others. Really committed folks with a vision to make the web more powerful, lessons to be learned from the folks that push these.

A progressive web app in chromium can do web nfc, web bluetooth, web usb, camera, web crypto, service workers, and index db ... No installation required, and naturally sandboxed by your browser.

In addition to the payroll team being gone, Twitter's entire US tax team is gone, I'm told, along with its financial reporting team. Not great.

Class action lawsuit against elon musk for coercing tens of millions of people to participate in his humiliation kink.