Aaron Parecki

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rabble https://twitter.com/rabble

The thing that pisses me off is the board and Parag were doing the “right” thing by selling for maximized shareholder value that then destroyed everything they’d built. How is this ok? The twitter shareholders got a payday but employees, users, and society all lose.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 1:56am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:58pm -08:00)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
@eposvox@glitch.lgbt https://twitter.com/EposVox

I’m not going to tolerate a cult of reality deniers. Simply mentioning that most of company (bird) has been fired or quit is not political or biased.
If you’re going to continue hallucinogenic nonsense to everyone online, you’re going to find it increasingly difficult to exist

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:01pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:18am -08:00)
Paco A https://twitter.com/pacvarez

if you want to connect with me outside of twitter, just look at the moon and know that i'm looking at it too

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 12:40am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:57am -08:00)
Stonks.com https://twitter.com/Stonks_dot_com

Never let this site die please 😭

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 6:16am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:41am -08:00)
Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Thanks for helping out. You’re a lifesaver!

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 3:34am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:36am -08:00)
Abi Jones https://twitter.com/jonesabi

Leave Twitter just because it’s losing its entire infrastructure and is terribly understaffed? Babe, I’m a bicycle rider in the United States.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Tue, Nov 15, 2022 7:17pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:17am -08:00)
Shiv Ramdas Traing To Rite Buk https://twitter.com/nameshiv

the best way to become a millionaire is to start with $44 billion and buy Twitter

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:45am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:05am -08:00)
Mosquito Capital https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 9:46am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 6:56am -08:00)
irwin https://saturation.social/@irwin

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:08pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 6:53am -08:00)
ploum.net https://mamot.fr/@ploum

Each new generation on the web needs to learn that there’s no such thing as a permanent web identity on a commercial web service.
The only long-term solution to maintain your identity is:
1. your own domain name
2. Your own website/blog
3. Several backups
Everything else is temporary. Your accounts on myspace, facebook, medium, twitter, google plus, youtube, tiktok, mastodon will one day disappear or become useless.
You don’t have a "community" on those websites. Only ephemeral discussions.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 9:05am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 18, 2022 6:52am -08:00)

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