Aaron Parecki

You know that story about the bar owner who throws out the nice Nazi because otherwise the bar becomes a Nazi bar? This place is now self evidently owned by the far right and the doors are open for all of them. It’s no better than Parler or Truth Social now.

For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.

Mastodon has been getting quite a bit of buzz lately (an overnight success that took six years!) — and if you're curious about the early origin of its underlying protocol (ActivityPub), check out my interview on @Podnews with @samsethi:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5C3N82NIqWa6wJXBhJJDVo?si=VV65aSTDTu2R7Ql6RW__Ng

posted at 1:28am 🙃

Just want to point out that Satya Nadella changed the culture, focus, and coolness of Microsoft without losing tons of customers or having customers worry incessantly about whether it would survive.

Leadership skills are a real thing that aren’t just bloviating around.

[INT. STARBUCKS - DAY]

Me: Theres a large rat in the bathroom
Barista: ?
Me: A large rat
Barista: ?
Me: THERES A VENTI RAT IN THE BATHROOM

If you're gonna get on Mastodon, I would like to apologise in advance for being the guy responsible for posts being called "Toots". I thought it was funny. And it is, and it's even funnier that some people hate it. I take it back, I'm not sorry. Ha ha. Toots.

What did Yoda say when he saw himself in 4K?

HDMI…

My #FollowFriday is @EposVox. Or as you may know him, "The Stream Professor".

Generous with his time and thoughts, he has a far more open mind about what the future of platforms, content, and what ownership over all of it means than the run of the mill content creator.

I've watched his videos for some time, and it's been great to connect with him on the #Fediverse.

Now Musk says the top priority for the company this weekend is ensuring Twitter does an awesome job to support the World Cup, according to an all staff email.

This event has required a ton of work over the years from engineers and has prompted widespread outages.

There was no vision shared with us. No 5 year plan like at Tesla. Nothing more than what anyone can see on Twitter. It allegedly is coming for those who stayed but the ask was blind faith and required signing away the severance offer before seeing it. Pure loyalty test.

That is a concerning development 😬

I don't know much about coding, but this sounds sort of like a new editor asking me to semd him my 10 best sentences

Me, seeing other people rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic: Fools!

Me, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic myself: Yes, this is how it is done.

Why is the icon squished

Fresh paint at NE Tillamook and 7th 👀👀👀

Please stop acting like Mastodon is the "Linux of Twitter." It's literally just Twitter with the signup process of email or old IM clients. The normal use is virtually identical.
Not even close to the accessibility issues of Linux.
Does it need work? Yes. Stop writing shit off.

Ah, so we've literally come full circle to realizing what he thought he could do differently, he needs to do the exact same way as before.
Please let this shitshow end.

We are as much post-Twitter as we are post-COVID, which is to say, not as much as people would like to think.